I am redesigning a custom file browser for an app. Some file browsers (Windows Explorer for example), provide the option to have a Detailed, Icon, Thumb etc. view.
>From my personal experience, only noobs use the icon view because they don't know how to switch it. I am considering not having an icon view with this specific app. The only reason I would have to include it is that some of the competition has an Icon View, and also, it is the default view in XP / Vista. Heck, even gnome/KDE use the icon view as default (although KDE uses thumnails as well) Does anyone know why icon view is normally default? I figure it is just prettier, but less usable once the user learns about sorting column headers (cator to beginning users) Any ideas? ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
