Re: [Usability] The New File Selector

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:13, gabor wrote:
> 
> and who decides which UI is broken and which is not?

Who decides which code is broken and which is not?

It ultimately comes down to the maintainers and the peer-recognized
leadership in the project. If the meritocracy is working properly, these
are the people with the expertise, skills, and track record to trust
them to make and iteratively improve decisions.

In the area of UI ideally we have people with training and experience in
the study of interaction design, and those people are applying sound
principles and methodology. Just as we'd expect programmers to have
training and experience in programming and trust them to apply their
skills.

Linus isn't taking an opinion poll on patches and neither should the
interaction designers take an opinion poll on designs. Both of them care
about what people want and can benefit from feedback, though. Both of
them can make mistakes and would generally collaborate with peers.

Havoc