Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

[drago01]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 10:53 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
>
>> I don't agree.  There's nothing unusual about a dumbed-down interface for
>> novices, with an 'advanced' tab hiding more options.
>
> As someone else has pointed out, a lot of usability experts consider
> this a bad idea, for two reasons:
>
> 1) everyone thinks they're an expert, even if they're not, and hits
> 'advanced'
>
> 2) it creates a confusing decision point for *everyone*: how do you know
> if you need the 'advanced' options? You can't really know without
> looking at them, so you have to look at them to decide if you need them,
> so essentially we're presenting the advanced options to everyone...

Well most people just press "Next", "Next", "Next" ....