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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: 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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