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Rachael Taggart
Author: Rachael Dalton-Taggart Created: 4/20/2006 12:59 PM
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Why CAD software sucks
By Rachael Dalton-Taggart on 4/26/2006 3:14 AM

There is a growth of concern about the continued usability - or lack thereof - of CAD software. Steve Wolfe hosted a briefing session about it and I am impatient to get the audio recording of it for reference. Martyn Day was intended to host a briefing about this at the event too, but unfortunately missed his plane and turned up late.

One of Alan Cooper's main complaints (our keynoter BTW) in his book 'The Inmates are Running the Asylum" is that interfaces on almost any product, anywhere, are not given the attention they need to make a product usable. This doesn't only refer to CAD products, but also to simple things like VCRs, microwaves etc. CAD products are incredibly power ...

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