>>Hello,
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>>I just wrote an article about building user friendly interfaces, maybe that is of interest for some of you or you have some ideas to add from your own.
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>>http://cisberner.wordpress.com/
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>I've always said that anyone who is going to create good user apps should first do the user activity. In other words, do data entry on 'bad' data entry screens and then on 'good' data entry screens and pay attention to what the differences were.
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>Keep in mind who you're programming for. Managers, for the most part, like bells and whistles, lots of mousing and drop down lists and such. People in the trenches want speed.


For me, that is one of the most frustrating things aboput programming. Our typical; "user" is not the decision maker. So our marketing staff (bless their hearts) continue to request "flash", which the typical head-down user couldn't care less about. Unfortunately (or fortunately, if in sales), flash sells.