Re: Overwhelming Options
Re: Overwhelming Options
- Subject: Re: Overwhelming Options
- From: Jeremy Matthews <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:48:56 -0400
It's an internal app for "power users"...and its been a struggle to reduce it so far.
I've been told that the current options need to stay put....so no reducing for the moment.
...but I don't like it either...
Thanks,
j
On Sep 1, 2011, at 1:51 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
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> On Sep 1, 2011, at 9:58 AM, Thomas Davie wrote:
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>> Can I ask what your app is? I find it hard to believe that your user really needs to set 42 boolean flags. There must surely a better way to think about the configuration.
>
> Agreed. If Apple’s UI designers were looking at your app they’d strike out 90% of those checkboxes immediately. (In my experience they always try to limit an app to fewer prefs than it actually needs, and then the engineering team and/or end-users fight back, and it ends up a decent compromise.)
>
> —Jens
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