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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!news.uh.edu!not-for-mail From: cosc19v2@menudo.uh.edu (cosc19v2) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Users are only human. -- bah! Date: 7 Jun 1994 23:09:14 -0500 Organization: University of Houston Lines: 17 Message-ID: <2t3g9a$s6h@menudo.uh.edu> References: <2t21rj$hfr@menudo.uh.edu> <2t2535$k33@menudo.uh.edu> <2t36ee$gs2@rodan.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: menudo.uh.edu In article <2t36ee$gs2@rodan.uu.net>, Mike O'Dell <mo@uunet.uu.net> wrote: > >To paraphrase from Brian Redman: > > "Why should I worry about user-friendly software? > I don't have any friendly users." First, since you are a nice person. Second, to RE-paraphrase from the Unix Review article, . "With all their passions and anomalies, users are the software designer's primary domain of study." Last, (and most importantly), the reason why you don't have any friendly users is that you did *not* make the software user-friendly.