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: Jeremy Dronfield <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:50:50 +0100
On Friday, October 18, 2002, at 08:20 am, Chris Hanson wrote:
They found that no, even if the user chooses an option, the default
should *not* always be to confirm the option. Instead, if the option
could irretrievably destroy data, the default should *not* destroy data.
This isn't consistently applied, though. The default for Burn Disc, for
instance, is "Cancel", whereas the default for Empty Trash is "OK".
(Sure, emptied trash isn't, strictly speaking, irretrievably destroyed,
but as far as most Joe Users are concerned it might as well be.) So it
seems, as far as Apple is concerned, that other value judgements are
involved in making this design decision: irretrievably destroying a
blank CD-R by burning it accidentally is more serious than losing an
important file, apparently. It seems that the number of steps the user
has to go through to reach that alert and its critical button choice is
a factor (i.e. there are more steps involved in trashing a file).
Another factor, I suspect, is how likely it is that a
computer-illiterate user will be using the function in question.
(Incidentally, the default Cancel button in the Burn Disc alert is to
the left of the Burn button.)
-Jeremy
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