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

On Friday 20 September 2002 12:12, Jef Spaleta wrote:
> Fine make it a performancce issue...and I say at this moment in
> time...having good solid applications in either desktop is a
> functionality issue and trumps this UI consistancy argument.

An essential element of a good UI design is consistency.
For an application to find a comfortable place in Windows, OS/2, KDE or GNOME 
its UI has to match its environment.

One of the good points about StarOffice 5.1 is that on OS/2 it looks like an 
OS/2 application.

If a UI is inconsistent it becomes hard to use, and if it's hard to use people 
won't use it, no matter how good it is inside.

A good UI design is like security, for best results it _must_ be built in from 
the start.

I read in the past day or two that it took Microsoft five years to get rid of 
the UI mistakes in Word.



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