Re: Target Column?
Re: Target Column?
- Subject: Re: Target Column?
- From: Dave <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 14:58:17 +0100
On 11 Apr 2014, at 15:39, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On Apr 11, 2014, at 4:33 AM, Dave <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Don’t want a flame war and don’t take part in them, but really it doesn’t take a degree in applied metaphysics to point out a bad UI.
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> Meh. It’s the geek equivalent of “my five year old could paint better than that” or “you can hear the strings squeak during the guitar solo”, or those people who memorize all the continuity errors in movies.
I didn’t mean it like that at all. The point I was making is that what we have now isn’t as good as what we had before in terms of UI design and ease of use.
It’s UI 101 that you don’t have controls a long way from each other, simply becuase of the distance needed to travel with the mouse and accuracy landing on the destination UI element. This is well documented, by Apple as well as others.
The idea of having a vertical panel then a work-space then another vertical panel in that order clashes with the above. Before the controls were in separate windows so you could position them next to each other if you needed to, now you can’t.
> Also, we coders have a terrible tendency to dismiss any problem we haven’t personally worked on as trivial. (Myself included, but I try to stay aware of it and bite my tongue.)
Agreed to a point, but in this case, the problems were alredy solved.
> I’m serious, who among you has designed a UI half as complex as Xcode’s? Let him/her cast the first stone. Until then, put the energy into making your own apps better.
Yes, that’s true too, and, perhaps, the idea of the new way of doing things was to cut down on UI complexity and that has been achieved to a degree, however the usability has decreased. I’m not just talking about the targets thing, which is largely a matter of taste, but in general.
It would be interesting to see how much extra mouse movement is required for a given set of UI tasks, I’m willing to bet you’d be moving the mouse a hell of a lot more than before.
One thing that would make it much more usuable IMO would be to simply allow the right or left panes to be dragged next to each other, this simple tweak would make all the difference to usability.
Cheers
Dave
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