aww... come on people, don't be getting your shorts in a bunch <g>... Microsoft takes the low road when it comes to demonstrating apparently commercially...
You have some good points, but I think you're being too harsh on poor Microsoft. Have you used OneNote? It's a great application and finally someone has...
... In much the same way, people overcome the extreme difficulty of learning to become a pilot, play the piano, or setting up their new, unusable stereo ...
but just think if everyone built in a "feature-usage-monitor" that could let your server know about usage every month or so... then you might see that only 20%...
then you might see that only 20% of an apps features are used by 90% of the people. -- Alain: I haven't read that study, but according to Johnson'02, 45% of...
... a valuable addition to something like Word would be the magic customizer slider (that i have invented in my head for years when i was building a very ...
Larry Constantine
lconstantine@...
Nov 2, 2005 3:01 pm
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Well said Larry. I agree having a single control that changes the UI or other sort of interface "expertise" modes is not a good idea. You're asking the user to...
if you read carefully, you'll see my idea was always based on a per-feature (or group) concept, so to speak. " slider that would allow features to go from...
Hi Jon, ... Reading incredibly carefully, I see the word "slider", not "sliders", suggesting strongly that there is just one across the board slider. ... Oh...
And if I may slip in one more UI praise for Word that in my opinion makes up for a lot of bad, the red squiggly. I'm talking about underlining misspelled words...
" Nice find with that photo app Jon, oh man is that bad. It's almost too painful to compare it to something like Picassa 2. " btw: yes, it is a bit exploratory...
... Ron Jeffries said the following on 11/3/2005 8:59 AM: Hi Jon, ... per-feature (or group) concept, ... user" ... Reading incredibly carefully, I see the...
<disclaimer> okay... I had something to do with this UI. i went phishing for some initial reactions. </disclaimer> we deliberately threw out all manner of UI...
Well if you're fishing then I guess you caught me :) I can say for first reaction the faux wood backgrounds and gradients around the controls really turned me...
AU: Because I'm proficient at using GUIs with a keyboard, and I'm a sloppy typist, Excel has a committed "feature" that drives me nuts. When I type into a...
so its less usable for you, are you implying its less useful for everyone? I personally find it quite useful I can enter text and arrow to the place I want to...
... We are discussing a standard, the Common User Access, which predates MS Windows (and the MS oligarchy). I don't think I flamed either of them. The stated...
so its less usable for you, are you implying its less useful for everyone? I personally find it quite useful I can enter text and arrow to the place I want to...
The CUA permits you to feel like your editing functions are a part of your hands, not a part of the current application, or its specific mode. This permits you...
... Just last night I wrote yyyy-Mmm-dd format on a check. It would have been nicer if I had followed that other standard, and wrote it in the date field...
I do a talk called "Violate Standards!" in which I encourage designers to see these kind of de facto "design standards" as opportunities for innovation. The...
... The best editor I ever used was non-CUA. Rick Stiles's UEdit, for AmigaDOS, had a usability envelop architected from scratch, with no underlying GUI to...
-- Phlip wrote: The best editor I ever used was non-CUA. Rick Stiles's UEdit, for AmigaDOS, had a usability envelop architected from scratch, with no ...
an upstart *should* offer improvements... including in usability. however, one can also offer up the option: [ ] "Behave like the Market leader" QuattroPro was...
Hi I just tried this *bug*, and had no problem editing the text with the <left> and <ctlr><left> features, you described as a bug. I am using Excel version 9...
I haven't used Excel much, but I remember having the opposite problem -- I am editing a cell, and left-right moves the caret in the text. How do I go to the ...
... Now there's an example of slick usability that did everything _wrong_ by todays standards. Everyone nowadays does Object->Action. First you select the...
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