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Re: Rant... please let me help you fix the user interface
Subject:Re: Rant... please let me help you fix the user interface From:Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:26:42 -0700 (PDT)
I see this mentality too often, although not at my
workplace now. It kills products. The literal-minded
geek can make technology only for like-minded geeks.
The best escape that trap however.
--- wendy_lewis -at- goodyear -dot- com wrote:
> Top of the list
> is the "Submit Query"
> button, which they won't change to Go, Search, or
> even Execute, because
> "that's what it's actually doing".
> Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
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