A lot of time, configurability is needed to match up with a business's existing processes - IOW, since the customer isn't going to re-configure their work around your software, your software has to be configurable to fit their work.

I think a lot of "intuitiveness" isnt' really that, it's just learning and being used to a certain way of doing things. For example, I suspect experienced Mac users, experienced Windows users, and complete computer newbies have different ideas of what is intuitve.

That said, there definitely are superior user interfaces.
Tony (in SV) | 07/03/27 - 5:16 pm | #

Here's another version of that quote:

Unix makes easy tasks hard and hard tasks possible.
Windows makes easy tasks easy and hard tasks $29.95.
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Nicola Larosa | Homepage | 07/03/27 - 5:34 pm | #

Actually in the Electronic design automation field their has been a very successful suite of tools based on a proprietary lisp dialect called SKILL.
i personnaly hate tools with a bolt-on command-line interface with not enough functionality to create batch jobs for what I want to do. i also hate slow GUIs that lock-up when processing a command.
- Paddy.
Paddy3118 | Homepage | 07/03/27 - 6:29 pm | #