[racket-dev] Downloading DrRacket for Mac is hard?

Or we can trust that the Mozilla Foundation's user interface designers has
already done the experiment. They have some of the best people of the
industry working for them, including Aza Raskin, son of Jef Raskin, one of
the original designer of the Macintosh. I see no reason to deviate from
their design choice.

   [big:]         DrRacket
   [almost as large:]   Free Download
   [small and grey:]  5.1.2 for Windows, English (US)

   [outside of the button, small and light-grey:] All Systems & Languages

Shriram, if you want I can email Aza and ask him what experiments they did
to arrive at the current design.


On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu>wrote:

> We also have an extensive audience on the users list and in our
> individual departments.  So it would be easy to circulate a draft Web
> page (no fancy download or even formatting) that simply says, "I'm
> guessing you are using a ... -- is this correct?" and get lots of
> people to test (and get more details from those who say no).  We
> should crowdsource this for maximum benefit.
>
> Shriram
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Robby Findler
> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> > I'd be happy to comment on drafts too, if that's useful.
> >
> > Robby
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Matthias Felleisen
> > <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> Guillaum, why don't you work out a concrete plan, especially the wording
> of the messages to the downloader, and submit it to ELi for review. He will
> implement a version of it. Thanks -- Matthias
> >>
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