http://tynerblain.com/blog/2005/12/14/getting-past-the-suck-threshold/ Software product success. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:42:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://tynerblain.com/blog/2005/12/14/getting-past-the-suck-threshold/comment-page-1/#comment-820 Little K’s Blog » Blog Archive » The featuritis Curve Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:17:08 +0000 http://tynerblain.com/blog/2005/12/14/getting-past-the-%e2%80%99suck-threshold%e2%80%99/#comment-820 [...] We’ve posted before about exceeding the suck-threshold by creating software that people can use. Another of Kathy’s great ideas. Visually, here’s what that looks like using the same framework Kathy has presented. [...] [...] We’ve posted before about exceeding the suck-threshold by creating software that people can use. Another of Kathy’s great ideas. Visually, here’s what that looks like using the same framework Kathy has presented. [...]

]]> http://tynerblain.com/blog/2005/12/14/getting-past-the-suck-threshold/comment-page-1/#comment-248 Software testing series: Organizing a test suite with tags part two -Tyner Blain Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:49:27 +0000 http://tynerblain.com/blog/2005/12/14/getting-past-the-%e2%80%99suck-threshold%e2%80%99/#comment-248 [...] Developers will never start using the suite. Make them want to use it, or make them use it. We believe you want to make them want to use it - both by evangelizing the benefits and by quickly crossing the suck threshold so that users get positive feedback. For this project, we have taken that approach, although it’s true that there is also a mandate from the dev team’s managers that we must make sure they use it. With process and education approaches that have proven effective, this is not a target of the current software solution. [...] [...] Developers will never start using the suite. Make them want to use it, or make them use it. We believe you want to make them want to use it – both by evangelizing the benefits and by quickly crossing the suck threshold so that users get positive feedback. For this project, we have taken that approach, although it’s true that there is also a mandate from the dev team’s managers that we must make sure they use it. With process and education approaches that have proven effective, this is not a target of the current software solution. [...]

]]> http://tynerblain.com/blog/2005/12/14/getting-past-the-suck-threshold/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Tyner Blain » Top five usability blunders (and fixes) Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:00:39 +0000 http://tynerblain.com/blog/2005/12/14/getting-past-the-%e2%80%99suck-threshold%e2%80%99/#comment-70 [...] Fail to simplify a comprehensive interface so that new users can quickly climb past the suck threshold. [...] [...] Fail to simplify a comprehensive interface so that new users can quickly climb past the suck threshold. [...]

]]> http://tynerblain.com/blog/2005/12/14/getting-past-the-suck-threshold/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Tyner Blain » Watson from Intellext Wed, 04 Jan 2006 08:04:15 +0000 http://tynerblain.com/blog/2005/12/14/getting-past-the-%e2%80%99suck-threshold%e2%80%99/#comment-26 [...] This morning I was working on a “How to design unit tests” document for my client, and I opened Watson, and I can’t tell you how good all of the links were, because the first one was so perfect. (Advanced Unit Testing, Part I - Overview, By Marc Clifton). While I was working away, I wanted to find a good link to an explanation of pair-wise testing, and in an intuitive place in the Watson UI was a widget that let me narrow my results - I entered “pair-wise”, and boom - first link again. It shows up as a sidebar on your desktop (like Trillian, ICQ and others), and can be minimized to the system tray (a lightbulb icon) I can’t tell you anything else about it yet, because I haven’t spent more than a total of 20 seconds interacting with the interface. To me, that’s high praise for the UI. And probably record time for clearing the suck-threshold. [...] [...] This morning I was working on a “How to design unit tests” document for my client, and I opened Watson, and I can’t tell you how good all of the links were, because the first one was so perfect. (Advanced Unit Testing, Part I – Overview, By Marc Clifton). While I was working away, I wanted to find a good link to an explanation of pair-wise testing, and in an intuitive place in the Watson UI was a widget that let me narrow my results – I entered “pair-wise”, and boom – first link again. It shows up as a sidebar on your desktop (like Trillian, ICQ and others), and can be minimized to the system tray (a lightbulb icon) I can’t tell you anything else about it yet, because I haven’t spent more than a total of 20 seconds interacting with the interface. To me, that’s high praise for the UI. And probably record time for clearing the suck-threshold. [...]

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