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Re: OT: The "Apple way" of doing things
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Re: OT: The "Apple way" of doing things


  • Subject: Re: OT: The "Apple way" of doing things
  • From: "Scott Ellsworth" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 13:35:44 -0800

On 12/1/06, Andrei Tchijov <email@hidden> wrote:
Next to the list I have set of buttons. What first button
does depends on status of selection in the list of things.

Personally, I would prefer it if the UI had buttons that did just one thing. That way, if the user double clicks accidentally, things work as they expect - the extra click will just hit a disabled button.

Similarly,the user can build muscle memory - I click 'here' to start
things, and 'there' to stop them.

I find that morphing controls, or controls that do irreversable and
different things to be annoying, more often than not.

Take it for what you paid for it.

Scott
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