LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

[Richard Gaskin]

Mark Waddingham wrote:

 > On 2016-03-02 06:46, J. Landman Gay wrote:
 >> I confess my first reaction was that LC needs an interface designer.
 >
 > Ah - yes - those magical 'interface designers' who you just ask to
 > give you the perfect UI that *everyone* immediately understands and
 > knows how to use and works exactly how each individual wants it to
 > work ;)

There is no best; there is always better.

We could use reductio ad absurdum to trivialize any profession.  Where's 
the magical software engineer who can deliver perfect bug-free code on 
schedule every time? ;) I've never heard of such a thing; ours is an 
imperfect world defined by constraints.

UX professionals are moving fast up the org charts at some of the most 
profitable companies in the world because their work contributes to 
directly measurable sales growth.  In some companies UX is a strategic 
C-suite position.

Of course it's not possible to produce a single UI that will satisfy all 
possible use cases.

But I do hope we all keep an open mind and actively listen to 
suggestions from users.  Not all of them will be actionable, and some of 
them might not be all that useful, but many of them can lead to insights 
into ways to improve the LiveCode experience, and that benefits us all.

Hopefully one day LiveCode Ltd. will grow large enough to be able to 
hire a UX strategist, who could contribute to refining the UI as well as 
onboarding materials, marketing assets, and more, reducing ever further 
the distance between "What is this?" and "Yes I want this!"

The company is chock full of uncommonly smart people, but not everyone 
is a specialist in everything.  Let's leave the door open the continual 
improvement in design.

I know firsthand the team has been very receptive to good ideas well 
presented in enhancement requests.  So all I'm saying here is let's keep 
our ears and minds open as we continue our journey forward.

Corning Gorilla Glass was an interesting technology sitting on the shelf 
in their labs until a crazy UX strategist called them up and suggested 
it might be useful on a phone.  We just never know where the next useful 
idea might come from.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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