[ANN] Release 8.1.6 RC-1

[Richard Gaskin]

Kevin Miller wrote:

 > We are working hard to attract new users to the platform. This has
 > come up again and again in user testing. This evening we tested this
 > new handler list on new users for the first time. It went over very
 > well.

It does indeed seem very helpful, but even better to hear that the team 
is making time for user testing.

Perhaps a blog post about that would be a great read, not only to better 
appreciate the thinking behind changes but also to inspire your audience 
of developers to adopt similar methodologies.

So much of software success these days is based around UX far more than 
algorithms.  Encouraging good design practice helps your audience be 
more successful, and raises the visibility of the platform as a whole 
along the way.


Supporting these efforts to better serve new users, have you had a 
moment to consider this quickie?:

Bug 19511 - UX: Move "User Guide" higher in the Help menu
<http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19511>

An investment of just a few minutes can help make learning resources 
much more readily discoverable.

If you have time for further refinement of other items in the Help menu 
I'm at your service, feel free to call anytime.

But if a first pass were limited to the very minor suggestions outlined 
there, I believe it would cut down on some of the forum posts stemming 
from people not knowing LC ships with a wonderfully comprehensive User 
Guide.

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