FESCo Meeting Summary for 20090424

[Callum Lerwick]

On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 01:47 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> First of all, I'd appreciate if you didn't put words in my mouth.
> 
> And no, we usually don't ask for as much user input as some other
> projects, because otherwise we get asked to show the old knobs for power
> users, instead of having them trying to explain what they're trying to
> do.

And then you explain to them why they're abnormal for even wanting to do
what they want to do! Then dismiss and ignore them. That makes them
happy!

> I'd advise you to read "The inmates are running the asylum" by Alan
> Cooper (or "Is it just me or is everything shit?" if you're in a lighter
> mood).

Ah yes, the chapter about arguing with your end users was a good read.
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