Principles for User-Interface Design

[Judy Perry]

Al:

It sux bigtime!!!

I remember once I was teaching the "how to turn your computer on" class on
the PC platform and some CS major decided it would be cute to reprogram
the left-right mouse buttons to their opposite.

I can't begin to tell you how much fun that was.  Happened periodically
that term.

As for Macromedia's, er, now Adobe's I guess, UI, all I can say is that

(a) It's bad;
(b) It's not possible to have a display that is big enough to handle its
bloat; and,
(c) It's really bad.

Misery loves company...

Judy

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Alejandro Tejada wrote:

> Have you see how "configurable" is the
> interface of Macromedia FreeHand MX?
>
> In the computer classroom, last week, i noticed
> the most bizarre behavior from FreeHand MX.
> Every student "done" and "undone" the MX interface
> at will, so in the end, i had to spend the first
> 15 minutes every day to return FreeHand to the
> state of the previous day.
> And some days, it was necessary to reinstall the
> program, to revert all changes... :-(
>