On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 01:27, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 20:23 3/19/2004, you wrote: > >To begin as a tester though you may want to start at a higher level - > >testing GUI's and the like. I think that is the best way to start. > >Find widgets that are not connected to proper handlers and discover poor > >HCI (I love HCI) designs. That's where I feel Linux/GNU falls the > >lowest (unlike apple), but things are getting better! > > What the heck is HCI, and what would make it poor? Human Computer Interaction/Interface. The Screen->Eye->Brain->Hand->Mouse experience. Fitts' Law. All that good stuff. Something a lot of Linux developers don't pay enough attention to (heck, something *MOST* developers -- regardless of platform -- don't pay enough attention to!). Ben -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/ascii / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves
