Zagorath 128 points a year ago

The open source music notation software MuseScore used to be really, really bad. A musician and UX designer gave it a scathing review in a humorous YouTube video. And then the company behind MuseScore hired that YouTuber and spent a lot of effort doing a major redesign, and now it's actually quite good.

All it takes is for the people in charge of the project to put aside their hubris and trust that sometimes, programmers aren't the best designers, and to get people who are trained in designing and evaluating user interfaces to do the job. And to perform adequate user testing.

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bluesheep 27 points a year ago

Love tentacrul. I re-watch that video from time to time just because it's so good. It was also really funny watching a later video of his where he just casually dropped that he was working on musescore.

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captain_aggravated 12 points a year ago

I want him to do FreeCAD.

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bluesheep 5 points a year ago

Omg yes. I actually tried using that after my Fusion360 student license expired and the amount of time it took me just to extrude a basic shape was insane.

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Zagorath 8 points a year ago

That whole series is absolutely brilliant, but it's hard to go past the Sibelius one if I'm gonna go back to one. And I say that as a long-time Sibelius user who can comfortably work much faster in it than in any of the alternatives.

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bluesheep 5 points a year ago

The conclusion I got from the video was that, while it's very powerful software, it's very difficult for new users to start using the program due to unintuitive placement of options. That's how he, for a lack of better word, reviews each piece of software, from the eyes of a new user.

But on the other hand, the video is also 7 years old at this point so maybe sibbelius has fixed some of the stuff that he pointed out. I don't really compose music so I honestly wouldn't know.

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