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: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 00:40:14 +0200
Well, hopefully my very last message in this thread:
On Friday, October 18, 2002, at 12:18 , Arthur Clemens wrote:
You have to calculate how much damage can be done like that against a
momentarily hindrance of a user's workflow.
On *this* I think we might agree. I don't have problem with a format HD
dialogue without any default: after all, the hindrance is negligible for
the action is taken rarely, and the damage might be vast.
You might consider though that the rule has two edges: when the damage is
relatively small and hindrance vast, there should be no alert at all. When
the hindrance would be vast then, if the damage remains even slightly
small than nuking Iraq, there should be an alert, but one which defaults
to *do* the action.
An excellent example of such WRONG design is the alert when deleting a
card in AddressBook: the action's undoable, no alert should be shown at
all (not speaking of other flaws like that the thing has "Yes" instead of
"Delete" and does not even take Esc for "No", but that's another story).
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Ondra Cada
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