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Ubuntu: you’re doing it wrong

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Re: Ubuntu: you’re doing it wrong

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Post by kstenerud »

wmf wrote: post #56
kstenerud wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"But the person making the decisions not a designer." Who is making the design decisions (what's their name)? How do you know this person is not a designer? How do you know that there's only one person making the decisions?

With the title Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator for Life, I think it's clear who's making the decisions.

Is it, though? Canonical states quite clearly that they employ a TEAM of designers to handle the UX aspects of Ubuntu. Unless you're suggesting that they're micro-managed, for which you'd need to supply some proof.

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Post by drcube »

sea6ear wrote: post #28
hsmyers wrote: post #5

As we get closer to the next big version (wherein most of the apocalyptic changes take place) I'll be reading HN for useful lists of alternatives. Anyone with useful suggestions can chip in now of course :)

I've been trying out Arch Linux ( http://www.archlinux.org ) for a few weeks now and am really happy with the results. I installed using ArchBang ( http://archbang.org ) which I think for a first time install might be the best way to go. (I think I'm almost ready to try a from scratch Arch install) Now that it's installed and I'm used to the package manager (pacman - which I like better than apt-get / aptitude if tha…

Arch is great, but it targets pretty much the opposite type of user than Ubuntu. Could you imagine telling your grandma to switch to Arch from Windows?

Of course, nowadays, I would suggest Mint, because Ubuntu is just weird. Their original motto, "Linux for Human Beings" should be changed to "Linux for Mark Shuttleworth". He's off in his own world now.

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Post by etcet »

koenigdavidmj wrote: post #2

Columns do not work on the web.

Longer-than-page multi-column layout without even a anchor link back to the top under the first column AND almost invisible link styling - why does this designer hate his readers so much?

You can make multi-columns look good if you make sure to place all the content above the fold. I made an experimental Readability hack which did this and expanded the page horiztonally with a bunch of javascript intercepting navigation - hooking into stuff like mouse scrolls across platforms is a nightmare.

Re: Ubuntu: you’re doing it wrong

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Post by p0ss »

lovskogen wrote: post #52
acabal wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually think he's right in dismissing those studies as ludicrous. You can't honestly take one or two (that I can recall) "studies" with only a dozen participants and then brand your product as "usability tested." That's just paying lip service. When you're changing a complex, deeply-ingrained interface for hundreds of thousands of people, doing two studies on a dozen people--and AFTER the fact!--and then calling…

Usability guru Jackob Nielsen disagrees with you and the author: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000319.html

He doesn't entirely disagree, Ubuntu has a huge user segmentation model, as he said, you'd need to repeat the tests for each user type.
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