Comments on: Dysgeusia http://microscopiq.com/2006/03/dysgeusia/ art • games • change Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:59:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Jason http://microscopiq.com/2006/03/dysgeusia/#comment-58 Jason Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:55:37 +0000 http://microscopiq.com/2006/03/dysgeusia/#comment-58 Indeed. Don't you just hate that? Like reviewing a movie based on the trailer, innit? ;-) Surely this assessment is an incomplete one but it is based on seeing a <a href="http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/cs547/060127-cs547-100.asx" rel="nofollow">detailed demo</a> with low-res display along with bunches of high-res <a href="http://techrepublic.com.com/2300-10877_11-6048111-1.html" rel="nofollow">screen shots</a> (that appeared just yesterday). I also showed a few of those screens to a naive user (the target audience) who found the UI fairly overwhelming. Regardless, I really did mean it when I said that this stronger focus on UI is a good thing and I agree the proof is in the pudding. I will certainly try out the final version and I'm happy to eat my words if the change is a positive one. I'm just not particularly holding my breath. Indeed. Don’t you just hate that? Like reviewing a movie based on the trailer, innit? ;-)

Surely this assessment is an incomplete one but it is based on seeing a detailed demo with low-res display along with bunches of high-res screen shots (that appeared just yesterday). I also showed a few of those screens to a naive user (the target audience) who found the UI fairly overwhelming.

Regardless, I really did mean it when I said that this stronger focus on UI is a good thing and I agree the proof is in the pudding. I will certainly try out the final version and I’m happy to eat my words if the change is a positive one. I’m just not particularly holding my breath.

]]> By: Jose http://microscopiq.com/2006/03/dysgeusia/#comment-57 Jose Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:14:22 +0000 http://microscopiq.com/2006/03/dysgeusia/#comment-57 Ok, it doesn't LOOK particularly nice, but it is a bit unfair to rant away without actually having used it! I've encountered plenty of UI that looked hard/unusable/etc. but was surprisingly easy to use once you tried it out.... Ok, it doesn’t LOOK particularly nice, but it is a bit unfair to rant away without actually having used it! I’ve encountered plenty of UI that looked hard/unusable/etc. but was surprisingly easy to use once you tried it out….

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