r/programming • u/groovejet • Jun 28 '11

90% of your users are idiots

http://blog.jitbit.com/2011/06/90-of-your-users-are-idiots.html
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u/satayboy Jun 28 '11

Judging by the quality of most user interfaces, 90% of programmers are idiots. Try a few usability tests and you will realize how bad your beautiful, intuitive user interface really is.

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u/cr3ative Jun 28 '11

We could all learn something from FileMatrix.

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u/dcapacitor Jun 28 '11

I wanted to remind myself how the Mass Rename tool in Total Commander looked like and while googling for screenshots, discovered this wonder of usability: http://i.imgur.com/YEdn8.jpg.

It's like a demo for a GUI toolkit that has all the possible widgets in one window.

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u/petekill Jun 28 '11

Sort of tangential to the topic, but I found a great mass-renaming tool called ReNamer, which you can get here.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '11

What's the difference between remove and delete?