More Bad UI
Posted February 12th, 2003 @ 04:39pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Does the button to the right look "enabled" to you? Does it even look like a button? It looks to me to be "greyed" or "dimmed" - states that we've been conditioned to believe are "disabled" on the Mac. Unfortunately, in this case, it's a perfectly active button! I say "bah." I say "fix it." Please, oh makers-of-Mac-OS-X, please for the love of all that is holy fix this stuff!!!
Matt's got more on schizophrenic controls at his blog, and I encourage anyone who's been following this UI blogversation to check it out. (Is "blogversation" a new word?)
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Posted 15 Feb 2003 at 12:50pm #
Given that OSNews is now linking to some mini-rants by Vinay, Matt, and myself, I thought I'd pull them all (the ones I find anyway, to this point) into one post. My posts, anyway - hit the trackbacks and links in the articles themselves to find most o...
Posted 23 Feb 2003 at 12:57pm #
Today I filled out about 40 bug reports at http://bugreporter.apple.com/. Here's the list, from our previous articles on the "inconsistencies" we find creeping up in the Mac GUI. If you have any bugs that you'd like to add to this list, let me know (me...
Posted 01 Aug 2003 at 3:09pm #
Mac OS X user interface problems
Update: Bloggers on the war path ... and rightfully so - because no matter what Apple's most loyal defenders want to say - the Aqua UI is in need of a good whoopin'. So what's new? OS News catches on...
Posted 30 Mar 2004 at 9:07am #
Given that OSNews is now linking to some mini-rants by Vinay, Matt, and myself, I thought I'd pull them all (the ones I find anyway, to this point) into one post. My posts, anyway - hit the trackbacks and links...