Re: [TFUI] A really bad UI concept

On Sunday, February 12, 2006, at 11:33:55 AM, Phlip wrote:

> Cory Foy wrote:
>> Thomas Eyde wrote:
>> > The creators behind this concept obviously feel every mouse click is a
>> > waste. So they have introduced special areas which clicks for you when
>> > you move your mouse over it.

> Mice already do soft things, such as tooltips, at hover time. The
> distinction should be between soft inputs and inputs that commit
> decisions.

>> Reminds me of XWindows and how window focus follows the mouse.
>> It's one of the first things I turn off if I can.

> The problem with Lazy Mouse is some people like it, bond with it, and
> leave it turned on when you pair with them.

> Then your own habits leave you skating the mouse away from areas you
> need to read, and this deselects them.

> Our industry is full of bad usability decisions too entrenched to give
> up. The majority of my tooltip events happen when something has
> scrolled under the mouse, the mouse displays a huge tooltip about this
> thing, and blocks whatever I was looking at.

> Don't tell whoever wrote that website that eye motion tracking
> hardware is available for GUIs.

There may be some fundamental truths about how the mouse is best
used, and I do like having buttons to click and various popup and
other options. But I also suspect that many of our preferences about
the mouse come from our specific experience and habits, not from
some capital-T Truth of what's good and not so good.

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
The opinions expressed here /are/ necessarily those of XProgramming.com.
But I might change my mind.


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