From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: Ozan Yigit <oz@blue.cs.yorku.ca>
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References: <20011105154852.0736919A08@mail.cse.psu.edu>, <87elnc4i44.fsf@becket.becket.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9
Date: Tue,  6 Nov 2001 17:53:06 +0000
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"Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net> writes:

>		 Jef Raskin puts it that we should not
> expect our users to be experts in interface design.  All too often
> interface designers figure that if they put in enough configurability
> they don't have any obligation to design a terrific interface.

there must be  a happy medium somewhere between staring at the thousand
levers of n possible interfaces (for some very large n) by a designer who
never was vs being the marionette of The Paternal Designer who have done
everything just right, so no levers needed.

oz