Re: Another Perspective on the Cause of the Keyhole Problem

--- Scott Meyers <smeyers-Q9ZaqOuDrMJWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion, expecially the part about
> reordering.  Is your
> suggestion about eliminating the discussion on
> control based on that
> argument being invalid, being unconvincing, or
> simply being ineffective by
> virtue of politically hurting my cause more than it
> helps it?  

Solving a problem with lots of valid constraints is
interesting. Hearing someone tell you that you're not
in control is maddening. When you're interested,
you're engaged whenever someone tells you how to solve
the problem. When you're ticked off, you stop
listening, or you try to poke holes in the other
person's argument. An abstract concept like "control"
is easy to poke holes in. Did that answer your
question or make it worse?

I could see retaining the "control" argument if it
were phrased more like "your web site will be more
effective if you let your users rearrange it to suit
themselves" rather than "you're not the boss of me."
Then it becomes another interesting knob to turn as
you design a web page.

Jill

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