On Designing software
Posted by meero on November 16, 2005
A friend of mine pointed me out today to the Modo 201 event video for SIGGRAPH’05. While I am still less than a couple of minutes through the video, I was very interested by the way Luxology presented their goals for Modo. I believe it’s the simplest and most efficient set of goals I have seen for a piece of software. Quoted from their slide decks:
“– Cutting edge toolset.
– Advanced software ergonomics.
– Painless pipeline integration.
– Streamline learning path.
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I believe Software ergonomics in this context is a synonym to usability.
The point that attracts my attention the most is the third one: “Painless pipeline integration”. Great software products should not ask us to change the way we do things; it should observe what we do, decides where its role will fit in our pipeline (hopefully at the bottleneck of our struggles) and how it will make our transition to this new software almost transparent.
policarpo said
Looking great Amir. Thanks for posting the source…should be interesting to follow along with the demo on the channel 9 video.
Cheers!
Darius said
Might be beneficial to put a readme explaning the FlickAPI.txt file purpose.