A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Windows ’95

Re:A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Wi... by philh on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @03:46AM (#6094958)

> But the UX is terrible and this is objectively so, just sit a new computer user in front of Gimp and watch his agony when trying to use it.

This is not the only objective measure of UX.

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Re:A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Wi... by cousin_it on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @10:06AM (#6096231)

Some people say a UI must be judged by experienced users, because newbies don't understand it yet. Others say a UI must be judged by newbies, because experienced users get desensitized to UI problems over time. (For example, every programmer can use their own program easily, but that doesn't mean the UI is good.) I think I trust the newbies more, because I've seen many bad UIs that experienced users like, but I haven't seen many bad UIs that newbies like.

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Re:A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Wi... by boomlinde on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @10:47AM (#6096461)

What are the objective measures of UX? Isn't the USER experience inherently subjective?

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