Programmers again to blame of bad user experience

If you are designing software with a GUI or developing web applications, you need to take into consideration how your users view and use your solution. The adage that "software is too difficult to use" is so old that many of us sometimes overlook it, especially when people with seemingly little understanding about IT complain about it.

But, there's still something to think about as eWeek reports. These articles always seem to start in the same way, but if you have the endurance to read to the end of the article, you will find the discussion about providing options to users.

As developers and often also technology enthusiasts, we like control. Giving the user the option to customize your application and set options/preferences is good for us, but not often so to the average user. Too little options can make the "power users" skip your program, and too many can make the basic users complain about difficulty. Something to think about.

In case you haven't yet made your New Year's Resolution, this is a good one: let us try to write application that even more users find easy to us. But of course, you can't always please everybody.