{"id":1975,"date":"2004-09-15T09:34:05","date_gmt":"2004-09-15T12:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=951"},"modified":"2010-05-08T21:26:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T00:26:57","slug":"re-xray-progress-report-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2004\/09\/15\/re-xray-progress-report-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: XRay Progress Report, part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/\">John Gruber<\/a> just posted <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2004\/09\/bbedit_8\">a long review<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barebones.com\/products\/bbedit\/index.shtml\">BBEdit 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>John&#8217;s articles are always very well written, but his thoughts on user interface are especially interesting for programmers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From the perspective of users, however, the importance of the user interface is profound. For users, the application is what they can see, click, and interact with. A user?s relationship with an application is perceptual, sensual.<\/p>\n<p>The raw capabilities of a particular application are, for most users, irrelevant; it&#8217;s the usability that matters. Features which aren&#8217;t presented via an intuitive, discoverable, usable interface might as well not even exist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t dispute that BBEdit&#8217;s interface is relatively unadorned; but so while it&#8217;s not <em>pretty<\/em>, it isn&#8217;t trying to be. <em>Handsome<\/em> is perhaps more apt. The layout of windows, dialogs, and menus is meticulous and thoughtful. The point is not to impress you; the point is to enable to you get work done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In fact, it&#8217;s very tempting to make a feature list for XRay 2.0&#8217;s user interface just by going over John&#8217;s points one by one&#8230; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_wink.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"icon_wink.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber just posted a long review of BBEdit 8. John&#8217;s articles are always very well written, but his thoughts on user interface are especially interesting for programmers: From the perspective of users, however, the importance of the user interface is profound. For users, the application is what they can see, click, and interact with. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-1975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dev","category-software","tag-xray"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-vR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}