At 05:02 PM 7/23/2004 +0200, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:

>David VanHorn wrote :
>
>> It's always a good idea to have someone totally unfamiliar
>> with the system, try to use it without documentation...
>
>And then just tell him to RT(F)M, and do nothing to the
>design, right ?   :-) :-) :-)

No, the idea is to have him do unanticipated things, and to pull out weaknesses in your user interface.   Ideally, a user shouldn't NEED a manual. Things ought to be organized and intuitive.  To the degree that a user needs a manual, you've failed at industrial design.



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