Principles for User-Interface Design

[Thomas McGrath III]

X

positively evil ! ;-)

T

On Jun 22, 2005, at 1:43 PM, MisterX wrote:

>
> "WELL, isn't THAT special?"
>  - the church lady from Sat. Night Live ;)
>
> i once called MS support - landed with a Parisian Support
> manager- My Applescript with MoftWord return error x. What does
> x mean? (x was a number i cant remember).
>
> All i got  was - that's a mac problem not word...
>
> Since then, they dont get any more support issues from me.
> I encourage everyone to do the same so they keep the buggiest
> software available!
>
> cheers
> Xavier
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
>> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of
>> Judy Perry
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 19:19
>> To: How to use Revolution
>> Subject: Re: Principles for User-Interface Design
>>
>> I especially got a kick out of reading what he had to say
>> about user-configurable UIs and MS Word 6 for Mac.
>>
>> Basically, his take was that user-configurable UIs are a
>> TERRIBLE idea but, that in the case of Word 6 for Mac, the UI
>> was already such a total piece of crap that anything that a
>> user could do to "screw it up" with custom configuration
>> could only be a step up.
>>
>> ;-)
>>
>> Judy
>>
>> On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Jon wrote:
>>
>>> If you want a real kick in the UI pants, check out the late Jef
>>> Raskin's book called The Humane Interface.  His ideas are radical
>>> enough that they cannot be implemented in most development
>>> environments, but they are worth considering.
>>
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