Re: AU interface consistency
Re: AU interface consistency
- Subject: Re: AU interface consistency
- From: Andy <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 20:03:30 +0100
On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 06:05 pm, email@hidden wrote:
I meant to mention that Reason has very few 1U rack devices. (Perhaps
you've only read
the specs?)
The user interfaces for the devices are very rich with knobs and
sliders for each function.
Given the return to "knobby" interfaces and a desire to escape the
"preset hell" of the
90s it seems that simplicity is going to lose out to control at the
moment.
And Reason (not to harp on too much but I think you might be
dismissing its usability a
little too quickly) goes to great lengths to auto-route the wiring in
the rack with logical
defaults but not tying a users hands to try weird and wonderful
routings.
This is an interesting discussion.
I use Reason (1.0) fairly regularly and I think it is excellent
software. But I think the UI, beautiful as it is, fails from a daily
usability point of view, it is imho too fiddly. Just like the hardware
it is pretending to be. Ok I mentioned 1U, but that was only my
example. Reason's simulation of rack mounting devices is a very good
simulation of just that. But it is not friendly, it is immediately
recognizable because that's what we're all used to. But we're only used
to it because we've been forced to get used to it by hardware
manufacturers who had not much choice either when it comes to getting
the cost right. I work for one of them btw, and we are always fighting
price against usability. That is a problem that we simply don't have in
software!
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