Personal program settings

I want to share a wonderful quote from the book "Interface" by Jeff Raskin.

"The personal settings seem convenient, democratic, allow for expansion, full of freedom and joy for the user, but, nevertheless, I am not familiar with any research that would talk about improving productivity, as well as objectively improving usability and facilitating the study of .



Adding user defined features certainly complicates the system and makes it more difficult to learn. I can assume that if you conduct a user survey, then most of them will be delighted with the large number of parameters that are configured by the user.

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It is also important to note that users customize interfaces in accordance with their subjective perceptions. Observations made in many experiments show that an interface that optimizes productivity is not necessarily an interface that optimizes subjective evaluations. ”

The italicized phrase is perfectly supported by practice. Here are some comments from users of the site linux.org.ru

“How can you call a thoughtful - an oak interface nailed to the floor, in which practically nothing can be customized?”

“My opinion is that the user simply needs to be able to change the layout of the interface elements (panels, buttons, etc.) as flexible as possible ... as well as their appearance ... So that at the user level, not the program level, you can completely crack the application ... And then you stupidly let in a team of designers and they make the interface without torturing the programmers with their paddocks))) "

“The ideal desktop is one that can be customized as the user wants, rather than driving it into a“ frame ”and teaching it to use the“ standard ”.”