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Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?
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Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?


  • Subject: Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?
  • From: Arthur Clemens <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 23:13:19 +0200

On donderdag, okt 17, 2002, at 22:42 Europe/Amsterdam, Ondra Cada wrote:

On Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 10:09 , Chris Hanson wrote:

As if it was acceptable to have a destructive, non-undoable default choice in an alert.

Which it *definitely* is. The user is not an idiot (well, should not be), and the reason of the alert is to allow him to rethink once more, *NOT* to hinder his workflow eg. by forcing him to switch from keyboard to mouse!


Users habitually start pressing return 2 times when a dialog appears often - without reading the actual alert. This has nothing to do with being an idiot, but with easy growing habits.
As a programmer you cannot prevent users growing these habits, you just should prevent serious mishap that could happen due to "irresponsible" behaviour.

Arthur Clemens
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