People always hate when things don’t work as they expect. This doesn’t have to apply for software products. You bang your TV, when it suddenly turns black and white. You shake your remote when it doesn’t work even though you know that the battery is dead. Usability is a great area. As a Usability expert, myself,, I always poke into applications and check whether it’s “easy to use”. One such example was...

As a software engineer, and that too a Windows Application Developer, majority of my work involves Visual Studio 2005. Today, I got a baffling prompt from VS 2005 as seen in the screenshot below… I made a mistake and wanted to quit. I was happy that my project file is readonly. But this is the prompt I got from VS 2005. It seems that I ought to save the file somehow. Clicking Cancel takes me back to where I was. There’s simply...