Re: How to avoid a Windows interface on OS X?
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: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 00:18:11 +0200
On donderdag, okt 17, 2002, at 23:25 Europe/Amsterdam, Ondra Cada wrote:
On Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 11:13 , Arthur Clemens wrote:
Users habitually start pressing return 2 times when a dialog appears
often
Oh, my God. Not all of them do -- only those who *W*A*N*T* the
operation to be performed immediately, without another alert > hindrance.
Once again, I'm talking about *learned* behaviour, not about rational
thoughts. Like you step on a new racing bicycle and just before the
traffic light you discover the bike has no foot brake. Its not that you
didn't know, you just forgot for a second.
So I am saving a file and I see some window pop up but let me go
through I press Enter ---- wait! did I see something like "... want to
overwrite this file?" Oops. Undo? Sorry, does not apply.
You have to calculate how much damage can be done like that against a
momentarily hindrance of a user's workflow.
Arthur Clemens
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