My remarks were intended to urge us as programmers to do a better job
as a whole in the UI area and make that same point that all UI systems
that I have experienced have great flaws in UI as of right now (as you
mentioned), but that I feel apple's OS X is held way higher than it
should be on the UI totem pole due to lack of consistency (which I
guess should be more of a totem bench). I feel that done bad or good,
consistency is one of if not the most valuable aspect of UI.
While a button may be somewhere on the screen (intelligible by the
user or not), being able to rely on a five minute menu search is more
efficient/functional than never finding it all. The reason I brought
the iTunes burn button up specifically is because it is a popular
application across platforms and I just helped a friend of mine (mac
user of over 4 years) find the burn button after his two week struggle
and eventual give up and call me phase.
Nonetheless, I think this is a very good discussion and an area of
study that I have become really interested in lately and I find little
that we really disagree over (though I definitely could have worded my
soft-spoken rant a bit better).
Thanks again
--
Mike Kelp
--Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
~Malcolm S. Forbes
--If knowledge is power, know this is tyranny.
~Thrice
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