Re: Participating in the user interface

["Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com>]

"Yaeger Hyde" <y_hyde -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote in message news:214379 -at- techwr-l -dot-  -dot-  -dot- 
>
> Regarding the issue that's been discussed over the
> past few days about participating in the user
> interface -- I have always found it frustrating to try
> and speak up and contribute input because whenever I
> say "I think you should do Y instead of X," the
> developers always say, "Well, our policy has always
> been to do X."  So what's the use?
>
If I were feeling particularly b*tchy (will that get blocked by some
overzealous IT dweeb's filters), if it were late on Friday, or both, I might
say something like "Well, your policy is there to make your job easier. Now
how about one to make the user's experience both better and in-line with
accepted standards."

Then I'd rattle off some of said standards from memory.

I don't suffer fools gladly. Any developer who takes such a stance and
treats a fellow member of the development team like that is a fool. Period.

If I were feeling magnanimous, I'd say the same thing, just far more
diplomatically.

Chuck Martin



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