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- From: ttoews@agt.net (Tony Toews)
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- Subject: Re: Can we do programming without seeing the end user?
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 01:08:20 GMT
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- shadow@krypton.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) wrote:
-
- >One unfortunate tendency I've run into is a supervisor or manager, who
- >will *never* be using the interface trying to dictate it. In one case,
- >I'd presented several alternatives to the people who were actually
- >*using* the software I was revising. They liked a menu setup that was
- >noticably different from the "old way" (among other things, it grouped
- >things *logically* :-)
-
- >Their manager almost got physical with me about the change. <sigh>
-
- And yet another manager had me sit down with the users and redesign
- the screen layout, rather than following the paperwork it put most of
- the commonly used items at the top so they could cut down on the
- number of returns to get past empty fields.
-
- (This is on mini-computers long before 286's and the ubiquitous Alt
- key! <grin>)
-
- Tony
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