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How to improve freeware’s poor usability

Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 5 August, 2008 to the technology subset

15 ways in which the usability of free software can be improved.

The easiest way of getting volunteers to contribute to a program is to make it open source. And while thousands of people are now employed in developing Free Software, most of its developers are volunteers. So it’s in Free Software that we see volunteer software’s usability problems most often.

Also read John Gruber’s thoughts on making improvements… ” if you have to ask for better design, you will lose. You need to be in a position to demand it.”

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