Getting Real: The Blank Slate (by 37signals)
However,
the natural state of the app is one that's devoid of data. When someone
signs up, they start with a blank slate. Much like a weblog, it's up to
them to populate it — the overall look and feel doesn't take shape
until people enter their data: posts, links, comments, hours, sidebar
info, or whatever.
Unfortunately, the customer decides if an application is worthy at this
blank slate stage — the stage when there's the least amount of
information, design, and content on which to judge the overall
usefulness of the application. When you fail to design an adequate
blank slate, people don't know what they are missing because everything
is missing.
First impression matters « Aurélien’s room
As an example, here is the KMix main window on my laptop on the
first start (rm ~/.kde/share/config/kmixrc to check how it looks on
your machine):
Not really handy, is it?
After fiddling a bit with the code, here is it what I got:
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