Last week I attended a small party in Amsterdam to meet freelancers and a bunch of very good designers. It was a nice party but a few people from the design business started a discussion with me why the SharePoint interface is so bloody difficult to use. Let's be clear, they did not mean ugly just difficult to use.

This is not the first time I hear this and I must confess I don't like it too. In the projects I did, many people struggled with the SP interface. I guess that is because of the fact that they are used to Office and they expect something similar from Microsoft. Some people will say "train them" but I think that shouldn't be necessary. We don't train them for Web 2.0 stuff, do we? Overall it seems people favor the Web 2.0 apps.

This is probably not my last post on this because it is really an issue.

P.S. And yes there is a mill on the background :-)