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Simon Robert wrote: > user friendly is not subjective. <snip> Agreed wholeheartedly. See Nielsen, Norman, Faulkner et al whose lives' work centre on Usability. If it was a subjective issue I would not have just sat an exam in which 50% of the mark was on HCI [1] and design with a bias towards user friendly design :) If user-friendly is subjective, then attempting to design something to be user-friendly is a lost cause. In a nutshell 'user-friendly' means anyone from a novice to an expert can pick up the item and be able to make use of it, either by its' similarity to other items they have used, or because it is intuitive. *massive etc goes here* :) If the meaning was 'one person finds it easy to use and another doesn't', that doesn't mean user-friendly is subjective - it means the item was badly designed to start with. Kind regards, Julian [1] Human Computer Interaction -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html