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: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 11:16:30 +0100
On Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 11:18 pm, Arthur Clemens wrote:
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.
OK, so if a user frequently performs an action which prompts them if
they are really sure, they will learn that yes they are really sure so
they'll dismiss the dialog without reading it. However, I don't know of
any user that will dismiss a dialog without reading it if they are not
expecting it. To do so is purely idiotic (you can do your best to help
your users out along the way, but annoying 99% to prevent 1% from being
stupid is probably not the way to go), and must be a result of using
badly written programs which throw up dialogs all the time.
-- Finlay
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