RE: Opinion: Worst interface ever.

[Mark Teicher <mht3 () earthlink net>]

The WG UI has been redesigned over the years, but still has the same 
clunk and feel it used to have in the early days, the context 
sensitive help actually works compared to years ago where one filed a 
bug and waited for the next rev.  Their appliance design has changed 
many times for cost reasons.  At one time or another they were known 
as "The Big RED BOX" firewall.  I think that was when David Bonn was 
their Chief Technology Officer, since then I don't know who has been 
fiddling with the code or the User Interface. All I can say is that 
there are still issues with the interface and some of the newer 
features, whatever you do plan ahead when enabling the in-line AV and 
SPAM feature.
You may want call technical support ahead of time and schedule lots 
of offline time to configure it properly or all your email might end 
up in /dev/null. :(

At 10:44 AM 7/5/2005, Eugene Kuznetsov wrote:
> I am not familiar with the WatchGuard interface, but I will say one general
> thing in their defence -- this stuff is harder to do than it seems.
>
> For every user like you, who's annoyed about the redesign, there's another
> one who demanded that the UI be reworked in the first place: to make it more
> intuitive for his preferred configuration, or to add options for new
> features. I'll even go out on a limb and bet $5 that somewhere in the first
> 5 minutes of your ordeal, you took a wrong turn, and it all went downhill
> from there. Had you taken a different path, it would've all been good.
>
> Now, again, I don't know much about WG, they could be just awful. I just
> know that "flexibility" and "ease-of-use" often work at cross-purposes and
> it takes a whole lot of ingenuity, discipline and luck to pull it off. I
> think we get it right with our products, most of the time, but it is not
> easy.
>
> So take this as a vendor perspective: it's not easy, especially since
> customer requirements are increasingly diverging. More features --> more
> complexity.
>
> \\ Eugene Kuznetsov, Chairman & CTO  : eugene () datapower com
> \\ DataPower Technology, Inc.        : Web Services security
> \\ http://www.datapower.com          : XML-aware networks
>
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