I know what you mean. I keep trying to use a PC (I have one). I
turn it on every year and try to run some applications. They run. I
try to use it in a normal way, but by the end of the day, I unplug it
again with a sigh of relief, and push it under the table next to my
Mac. I have not thrown it out, because I keep having the feeling
that someday I will want to run a special program that is not cross
platform. That is why I plug it in again every so often, but then I
decide it is just not worth the aggravation and I find another way of
solving my problem. Perhaps write it in Rev.
Yes, the tool does make a difference...
Dennis
On Jun 22, 2005, at 6:24 PM, Marielle Lange wrote:
...and not just user-configurable UIs, but also the... um... I forget
what Microsoft calls it, but it's the thing where the menus have the
most recently-used items rearranged on the fly by default.
Kids - don't try this at home. These are clowns^H^H^H^HMicrosoft
engineers at work designing your user experience.
<off_topic>
Apologizes in advance to all PC users on this list. I had to use a
PC to help a
student set up an experiment this week... I had a very hard time
keeping up
from swearing. You know, all these little things that get you
exclaim, "he
that's clever" on one platform and "bloody hell, stop taking all
these stupid
decisions". (I let you guess which comment applies to which platform)
Let's not start some arguing. Simple question: how many of you
swear at your
computer. What platform are you using? If you happen to use different
platforms, how often do you swear when using each one of them
In case you do it often, why not introduce a bit of diversity and
try "'Wretch',
'Beast', 'Swine', 'Jellyfish', 'Ectoplasm', 'Freshwater swab',
'Bashi-bazouk',
'Caterpillar', 'Baboon', 'Parasite', 'Disgraceful', 'Treason',
'Twister',
'Heretic', 'Technocrat', 'Hydrocarbon', 'Anthracite', 'Coconut',
'Fuzzy-wuzzy',
'Anthropithecus', 'Black bird', 'Nincompoop', 'Anacoluthon',
'Invertebrate',
'Liquorice' (from: http://www.angelfire.com/super2/animorphs/
insult.html ;-) ).
</off_topic>
<on_topic>
The rev-ed wiki is at: <http://revolution.lexicall.org/wiki/>
There is some information (work in progress, mostly parts of John
Mathewson's
MSc thesis) about user-interface elements and guidelines, along
with a few
links
<http://revolution.lexicall.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?
page=ResourcesInterfaceNavigation>.
Really, feel free to update and improve the content.
Links to Both apple and microsoft guidelines can be found there,
along with the
ones of other platforms and environments.
For a quick read, I recommend
<http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html>
Ten Usability Heuristics by Jakob Nielsen.
</on_topic>
Cheers,
Marielle
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