Good luck with this. I purchased some NXTs in an exchange and tried to install the wallet. Talk about unintuitive. I sold them back. Maybe this will turn out alright for you all, but right now NXT makes Bitcoin seem user-friendly.
its not designed to be user friendly. its designed to be innovative. user friendliness will come later. i was in exactly your same position ages ago with namecoin, before there was any thing else other than a command line interface for it. boy what a mistake it was to dismiss it on the same grounds you just dismessed nxt. i hope you dont make that same mistake.