Charles Greenberg writes
\”I\’m one of those librarians that doesn\’t have enough to
do already and has wondered why populist sentiment for
software inadequacies (bad design) couldn\’t be harnessed and
aggregated to actually help consumers identify the simplest
and most usable programs. I decided Y2K might be the year
that a community of software raters could be found to launch
this, so I started techsimple.com
I do this on my own time with my own home resources, but I
believe there will be eventual benefit for librarians that
want an idea of what programs are simplest to use in a
number of categories, or they may want to refer library
users to my site.
I just started this site and need populist participation.
Librarians and educational technologists who have studied
usability and design will recognize that my rating survey
for each program is based on Jakob Nielsen\’s useit.com usability
heuristics for software design. Privacy for all individual
ratings and identities is maintained, and I don\’t see why a
rater couldn\’t have the application being rated open at the
same time they complete the survey.
I would appreciate feedback and
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