Re: UI design [was Owen Taylor's paper]

On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 19:45, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 05:55:05PM -0400, Jef Spaleta wrote:
> > instinctively....thats the problem...should you be operating a computer
> > on instinct. 
> 
> Yes. YES!

No No...if were were meant to instinctively use computers we'd be born
with a ps/2 styled mouse cable interface growing out of our index
finger....or maybe a usb connection.

> 
> I don't have time to inspect every damn dialog that pops up.

Really...thats pretty damn hard to believe considering you found time to
read my post....even more so thanks to my horrid elipse usage.  Do you
just click on through clip-wrap licenses as well?  You have very bad
habits.  If you going to argue that there are usually too many dialog
boxes during normal application use, that would be one thing.  But to
argue that you shouldn't pay attention to the dialog box messages when
they come up, well thats totally different.  Dialog boxes are there to
provide information...if the dialogs aren't useful then you should bug
the developers to use some other mechanism or tone down the dialog box
usage.  Ignoring dialog box messages is a very bad habit.I encourage
dialog box UI randomness to make sure people attempt to parse the dialog
message.  if the dialog messages are not useful then the dialog boxes
need to stop.  There's no point in having dialog boxes pop up if the
expectation is for people to ignore the messages within them.


-jef

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