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Re: Overwhelming Options
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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:

>
> On Sep 1, 2011, at 9:58 AM, Thomas Davie wrote:
>
>> 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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