PDAs / mobile devices are making more and more impact in people's business lives.
I'd say the deal is, the more you think about, the more you come round to thinking the GUI (if it's done well OR badly) directly impacts functionality. If you need to make a quick call to a seldom-viewed contact on a connected device, and your PIM / Today screen / whatever software, make it (even just a little ) slower to find that contact and invoke the Dial command because of lack of ease of use provided by good sharp design, that is impacting functionality. If a neatly designed app (take your pick on Magic Button, Handy Switcher, Pocket Plus, WA etc as examples) makes it easy and fast to switch back & forth between an app holding notes on a subject, an app holding contact details of someone to call and share those notes with and so on .... that is impacting functionality.
That's my thinking anyway - especially in these sort of small screen environments, GUI and overall functionality are pretty married to each other ....
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Originally Posted by JMJSelect
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I'm not throwing design out the window or anything, I think it's important too, I spent more time on the looks of my palm then anything else when I first got it.
but business wise(and pdas are huge in business) gui takes a back seat to functionality.
windows mobile is better in functionality(yeah yeah yeah), just wait for plinux.
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