Re: Animated toolbar
Re: Animated toolbar
- Subject: Re: Animated toolbar
- From: Joar Wingfors <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 02:17:53 -0800
On Feb 7, 2009, at 1:53 AM, Graham Cox wrote:
I don't see us using a standard toolbar, our big fear will be that
we don't want to lose the pizzaz we have under Windows and have a
bog standard looking Mac app, it will just look like a poor cousin
of our windows app then.
It. Doesn't. Matter.
Your users are not judging the app against your Windows version,
they are judging it against all their other Mac apps. You are not
your users, and your "big fear" is based on a misplaced perspective,
that of the app's developers.
Pizazz is all very well but if it actually makes the app less
usable, less standard and just plain weird to use, your users will
judge the app negatively.
In all fairness, full screen apps play by different rules than apps
that have their windows intermingled with other apps and the system
chrome.
We must also allow some latitude for playfulness, exploration,
innovation, etc. Remember Delicious Library?
I think that the message has been loud and clear. In the end, this is
not our decision to make but theirs.
j o a r
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