Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem
Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem
- Subject: Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 18:34:21 -0700
On 18 May '08, at 6:15 PM, Julius Guzy wrote:
I do not think it naive of me to raise serious questions regarding
usability given that i have made huge and increasingly successful
efforts to get into this system so I can do some heavy duty
programming.
…
Well if it were doing as good a job as you think it is then I for
one would not have lived through the nightmare of the last five or
six months struggle.
If you want to talk about this in terms of HCI usability, then you
need to play by those rules and _not_ describe the problem
anecdotally, just in terms of your own experience. Typically when this
happens, it's a programmer designing a user interface according to his
own preferences, which are often very different from those of a
mainstream computer user.
In this case it sounds like the opposite — you seem to be finding
Cocoa a lot more difficult to learn than most do. It definitely
shouldn't take months of struggle. (CoreAudio or Security, maybe. Not
AppKit.)
I don't know why that would be, and I don't mean it as a value
judgment. Different people have different learning styles. Maybe the
docs aren't matching yours. As others have pointed out, it would be
good to have more details on what you think the docs are missing.
One thing that does seem to apply to a number of other people asking
questions on this forum is a seeming lack of ability to experiment and
figure out answers oneself. Writing code is engineering, but debugging
it and figuring out how an API works is more like a science — and
understanding how to experiment, and draw conclusions from evidence,
are vital skills.
—Jens
Attachment:
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
_______________________________________________
Cocoa-dev mailing list (email@hidden)
Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list.
Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
This email sent to email@hidden