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It's too complicated: educate the user or change the product?

When testing a new product interface, we at Websystems have our ears out for comments that sound like "it's complicated" or "I can't figure out how to do this."

For us, when these comments are made repeatedly about a feature or a page in AceProject, it means we've made a mistake in our design. While we work hard on getting good, usable documentation for AceProject, our goal is that our users don't need to consult it when building their projects, updating their tasks, and going about their daily activities in the system. We think is filling out a time sheet should be self-evident.

Moreover, even if it's really difficult for the developer, he will work on making that feature simple and easy for the user once. The user, on the other hand, will use the feature many, many times. So it's more profitable to invest development time once, since it will save a lot of user time in the long run.

Published Jul 14 2008, 12:15 PM by Karine
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About Karine

Since my graduation from Concordia University in 1998, I have worked in technical writing and later marketing at various technology-driven companies. Now Director or Marketing for Websystems, my goal is to achieve better visibility for the company and its product, AceProject. I believe that AceProject is a great, intuitive project management system and I want to convince as many people as possible! I am part of a passionate team that believes in doing the job right, with the customer in mind.
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