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#56
Originally Posted by Fargus View Post
The bit about design guidelines for the user interface: there is a guide for how Nokia expect the interface to work. This covers things such as screen layouts, actions on certain keypresses etcetera. This helps make applications look and feel the same to end users. If an application deviates from this way of doing things then whilst it might work properly it doesn't follow the standards so might be confusing. This is an issue with compliance and technically still a bug.
The problem is that these guidelines are sometimes being applied blindly to the extent that they break common sense.

The people drawing up the guidelines aren't the ones handling the bugs, so there's apparently no feedback shaping those guidelines.

If the guidelines cause problems then the guidelines have bugs in them.