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Originally Posted by Mr. Goodbar
Although I work in the software industry, when it comes to the iLiad I would consider myself more of a "joe-normal-user." I think you hit on a good point in that the changes need to keep ease of use and ease of customization as a prime consideration. Many of the users on this board really push the envelope in what the iliad can do, but we need to keep in mind that probably most of the users of the device don't stretch it to quite that degree.
In my opinion, in the push to add features/functionality we need to keep in mind the intended purpose of the device and focus on that as the core. In my mind reading, annotating, sorting, searching and note taking are core functions that should be the focus. Just my .02.
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I agree very much with everyone who said something similar to this. We want the iLiad to be easy to use for the normal iLiad tasks, without anything that's non-intuitive or a huge departure from the current UI. At the same time, we need to add features (like search) that many users want.
I think my
suggested arrangement does this pretty well, but I would really like to hear criticism and improvements of it. If you think it's going in entirely the wrong direction, please say so...
We can't really start work on these changes until there's a community vision of what our goal should be. Otherwise it'll turn into a piecemeal kluge without any sense of rhyme or reason.
