Re: Rant... please let me help you fix the user interface

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Perhaps not from an internal SW POV, but users who
suddenly find themselves faced with new names on
buttons, menus and dialogs they've known for years
may have a different view.

I work with a (non-writing) niche app that underwent 
a major UI redesign in 2005 after some eight years
without any major changes.  The uproar from existing
users during the beta was so intense that the released
version contains a command that will close down the
new UI and bring up the old one.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Starr" <mikestarr-techwr-l -at- writestarr -dot- com>


> Changing text labels and button text doesn't normally have the potential to 
> break anything 
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