Comments on: Does good design really matter?

By: chris

chris — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:22:51 +0000

Hi Guys,

I just installed a freedback form on my site. I was over the moon to discover how easy it was to register etc.

Great job.

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By: evgenya

evgenya — Sun, 06 May 2007 11:43:00 +0000

Hi Jason,

I did indeed use Excel to make this plot. Unfortunately, excel does not directly export as an EPS file, but there are some work-arounds for that. One could print to PDF and then pdf2ps and then to eps. but often the resolution of the output isn’t great. If I want a really nice looking plot, I use XMGRACE which is a unix based (with GUI) which is free for the taking: http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/. it exports nicely to ps, eps, jpg, png, etc.

By: Allan Collins

Allan Collins — Thu, 03 May 2007 23:34:48 +0000

User-friendly is the key. The first one looked kind of difficult to someone who wasn’t computer literate.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 03 May 2007 17:31:39 +0000

Oooh, great question. I have no idea. I think she may have done it in Excel of all places. I’ll find out.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 03 May 2007 16:09:03 +0000

Only partially related, what software did she use to make that graph and does it export to EPS :) I”m tired of the bad interface in SigmaPlat and Matlab is a little obtuse.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:28:00 +0000

Collin,

I think part of where that “tolerate a bad design” sentiment comes from is because Freedback helps people accomplish a task. So as long as it does a good job at that, one might tolerate other faults.

It is a blurry line though - better design should make the task easier, and that’s what we were aiming to to here.

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Turulcsirip - henry copeland — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:59:06 +0000

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