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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Openusability about Kmail 1.7
From:       Eike Hein <kde () eikehein ! com>
Date:       2006-10-11 12:34:18
Message-ID: 452CE4CA.20305 () eikehein ! com
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Marco Gusy wrote:
> "2.1 Amount of settings - The first step is to reduce the amount of settings 
> that a "normal" user is confronted with in the properties dialog. Issues that 
> either require deep technical insight or that is relevant only in 1% of cases 
> should be kept "out of sight", but still accessible, or put to another place. 
> Reducing (required) information to the relevant makes the user feel safer 
> that he/she can control his /her actions (because he/she only must set what 
> he/she understands)."
> 
> I don't know if this is a new usability trend, but I think that's generally a 
> bad idea. Usability, in my opinion, is not "try to hide advanced settings", 
> but "put the features where someone seek them first". So break a "folder 
> properties" in pieces and scatter them around the U.I. doesn't make sense to 
> me.

I believe what's being advocated in the quoted paragraph
is a form of progressive disclosure:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_disclosure



-- 
Regards,
Eike Hein, hein@kde.org
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