{"id":673,"date":"2008-06-12T09:49:59","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T08:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=673"},"modified":"2008-06-12T09:49:59","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T08:49:59","slug":"digg-style-bug-reports-great-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/673-digg-style-bug-reports-great-feedback.html","title":{"rendered":"Digg-style bug reports = great feedback"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long Zheng\u2019s Windows UX Taskforce<\/a> is notable for several reasons. Zheng devised the site in order to give Microsoft feedback on quirks and annoyances in the Windows Vista user interface. He hid it by designing an application that lets users promote or demote user reports, Digg-style. To give you an idea, top of the list right now is that bewildering dialog that appears when trying to safely remove a USB thumb drive card reader \u2013 with 262 votes.<\/p>\n

So the site is notable, first, for what it says about the Windows Vista UI; second, for what it says about the number of people who care about it and are willing to submit detailed feedback; and third, because it shows what a great way this is for managing bug reports and feature requests.<\/p>\n

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Actually, Microsoft already has something along these lines, called Connect<\/a>. It\u2019s fascinating to contrast Zheng\u2019s quickly-assembled but easy to use site, which is attracting lots of users, with Microsoft\u2019s site that is slower, more complex, and less compelling. It\u2019s incomplete too. How do I submit feedback for Microsoft Word, for example?<\/p>\n

It strikes me that software vendors have just been shown a simple and effective way to improve their products. I wonder how many will take it up?<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: vista<\/a>, windows ux taskforce<\/a>, bug reporting<\/a>, microsoft<\/a>, digg<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long Zheng\u2019s Windows UX Taskforce is notable for several reasons. Zheng devised the site in order to give Microsoft feedback on quirks and annoyances in the Windows Vista user interface. He hid it by designing an application that lets users promote or demote user reports, Digg-style. To give you an idea, top of the list … Continue reading Digg-style bug reports = great feedback<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,55,79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-microsoft","category-software","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}