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Argh.
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:27 pm
by thiscatis
Does this sounds familiar:
You've been coding all day, made a small masterpiece that you think is worth a try to turn it
into a project and you ask someone of your friends to take a look at it.
And the first thing they will say is "I think that green color comes out all wrong".
And you're like omfg

, don't you understand there's a whole server side section that makes you do stuff.
And they're like : yeah, but the green is still wrong.
Slap. i'm off to bed

Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:31 pm
by Ambush Commander
It's called marketing!
Seriously though, a software package isn't just a wicked piece of code: it's also all about documentation and interface. Without those, you're doomed to fail.
In your case, however, make it blue!
Edit - Hmmm... are you talking about ImagePit? Well, it looks pretty snazzy and well-marketed to me. Ask someone else.
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:32 pm
by thiscatis
Ambush Commander wrote:It's called marketing!
Seriously though, a software package isn't just a wicked piece of code: it's also all about documentation and interface. Without those, you're doomed to fail.
In your case, however, make it blue!

It supports templates

Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:34 pm
by Ambush Commander
Edited too late. Is this ImagePit you're talking about?
Also, default theme is very important, because most people never get beyond that. First impression counts too.
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:37 pm
by thiscatis
Thanks for the comments

No ImagePit is a side-project i'm working on.
i'm making some kind of multi-user CMS for a niched group of clients.
When It's in a beta stage i'll post it in UI Design/Usability and you guys can critize away

Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 6:47 am
by s.dot
I can identify. It's kind of annoying! Like I want to show off a cool effect, but they're only interested in parts that aren't done yet. Like a couple days ago, I wanted to show off a superb CSS layout. The first response was, "there's nothing on the page, what layout?"

Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:36 am
by timvw
Users don't care about the (technical) beauty of a solution... The want something that makes *their* job easier.. They use your application as a black box... (Just like most application developers use their hardware and operating system as a black blox/layer to make their application run)