Scratching someone else's itch: (why open source can't do usability)

  • Authors:

  • Steven Pemberton

  • Affiliations:

  • Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY

  • Venue:
  • interactions - Making scents: aromatic output for HCI
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.---Eric Raymond,The Cathedral and the BazaarThere's a closely related issue, however that I don't know how to solve yet without a big player with a lot of money, which is doing systematic user interface end user testing. We're not very good at that yet, we need to find a way to be good at it.---Eric Raymond,Why Open Source will Rule