Re: My usability experience - Asa Dotzler should be fired

On 22/08/11 07:58, SmoothPorcupine wrote:
> If I may be blunt, I think it has failed pretty miserably in doing
> that where it really matters. Nobody can be empowered unless they
> understand what's going on. 

As a generalization, that's simply false.

If you own a car, it is a seriously empowering thing. (As someone who
recently acquired one at the age of 32, I certainly feel able to get to
more places in greater comfort than I used to.) But I don't understand
much of what's going on under the bonnet.

"It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by
eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate
the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the
case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important
operations which we can perform without thinking about them." -- Alfred
North Whitehead.

Gerv