Comments on: R.I.P WYSIWYG? Not so fast… http://www.betalogue.com/2005/10/13/rip-wysiwyg-not-so-fast/ Notes from an unfinished world… Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:29:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: robertm http://www.betalogue.com/2005/10/13/rip-wysiwyg-not-so-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-3328 robertm Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:02:33 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/2005/10/13/rip-wysiwyg-not-so-fast%e2%80%a6/#comment-3328 Neilsen's info is always interesting but because he uses surveys, his advice always caters to the lowest common denominator: someone with not-so-good eyesight who doesn't spend much time with computers or on the web. And what's most usable for that person is going to be less than ideal for, say, the average teenager. Nice to see Microsoft picking up on brushed metal and Aqua gel buttons though. Neilsen’s info is always interesting but because he uses surveys, his advice always caters to the lowest common denominator: someone with not-so-good eyesight who doesn’t spend much time with computers or on the web. And what’s most usable for that person is going to be less than ideal for, say, the average teenager.

Nice to see Microsoft picking up on brushed metal and Aqua gel buttons though.

]]> By: Matt Gemmell » Blog Archive » It’s a paradigm http://www.betalogue.com/2005/10/13/rip-wysiwyg-not-so-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-3327 Matt Gemmell » Blog Archive » It’s a paradigm Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:00:41 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/2005/10/13/rip-wysiwyg-not-so-fast%e2%80%a6/#comment-3327 [...] I came to this by seeing Michael’s link to Pierre’s rebuttal of Nielsen’s article in my feeds. Pierre rightly notes how Nielsen completely fudges the difference between a GUI and the concept of WYSIWYG editing, but I can understand that to some extent: Nielsen writes as a usability pundit, and it makes far better copy to talk of the end of an eternally-buzzy paradigm like What You See Is What You Get. He also throws in reference to “Macintosh-style interaction design”, presumably to court controversy whilst picking a safe target. [...] [...] I came to this by seeing Michael’s link to Pierre’s rebuttal of Nielsen’s article in my feeds. Pierre rightly notes how Nielsen completely fudges the difference between a GUI and the concept of WYSIWYG editing, but I can understand that to some extent: Nielsen writes as a usability pundit, and it makes far better copy to talk of the end of an eternally-buzzy paradigm like What You See Is What You Get. He also throws in reference to “Macintosh-style interaction design”, presumably to court controversy whilst picking a safe target. [...]

]]> By: Pierre Igot http://www.betalogue.com/2005/10/13/rip-wysiwyg-not-so-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-3326 Pierre Igot Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:40:24 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/2005/10/13/rip-wysiwyg-not-so-fast%e2%80%a6/#comment-3326 Well, you are lucky enough not to have to use Office. Not all of us are as lucky :-/. Well, you are lucky enough not to have to use Office. Not all of us are as lucky :-/.

]]> By: ssp http://www.betalogue.com/2005/10/13/rip-wysiwyg-not-so-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-3325 ssp Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:00:45 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/2005/10/13/rip-wysiwyg-not-so-fast%e2%80%a6/#comment-3325 I found Nielsen's confusion of WYSIWYG and GUI quite irritating as well. Just because I've been using GUI based environments of TeX with menus, drag and drop and all that jazz doesn't make it WYSIWYG I suppose ;) And while I lack knowledge about the details of current or future versions of MS Office, what he describes sounds like what I'd consider the typical Microsoft approach of dumbing down their software and limiting the options they give you (or at least make it annoyingly complicated to get the software to do whatever you want). Luckily I don't really need to care about all this... I found Nielsen’s confusion of WYSIWYG and GUI quite irritating as well. Just because I’ve been using GUI based environments of TeX with menus, drag and drop and all that jazz doesn’t make it WYSIWYG I suppose ;)

And while I lack knowledge about the details of current or future versions of MS Office, what he describes sounds like what I’d consider the typical Microsoft approach of dumbing down their software and limiting the options they give you (or at least make it annoyingly complicated to get the software to do whatever you want).

Luckily I don’t really need to care about all this…

]]> By: Michael Tsai - Blog - R.I.P WYSIWYG? http://www.betalogue.com/2005/10/13/rip-wysiwyg-not-so-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-3324 Michael Tsai - Blog - R.I.P WYSIWYG? Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:28:58 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/2005/10/13/rip-wysiwyg-not-so-fast%e2%80%a6/#comment-3324 [...] Pierre Igot rebuts Jakob Nielson. [...] [...] Pierre Igot rebuts Jakob Nielson. [...]

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