On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Evan Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > - He's bookmarking by pasting urls into "add page" dialog found via > the bookmark manager(!). Maybe he doesn't realize the star is the add > bookmark button? > My response: I'm no UI designer, but I wonder if it'd help to put the > bookmark button star in some of the dialogs related to bookmarking? > If you don't hover the star you'll never learn what it does; on the > other hand, there are only seven buttons on the toolbar and I kind of > don't have much pity for people who haven't looked at them.
Everyone has their own approach to exploring a new program. I'm sure some people go through and hover over every button - myself, I read your email and went up to see what happens when I hover over the star. What do you know, helpful! That said, we have a minimalist UI, with lots of stuff that doesn't hold your hand to discover it. Maybe we could have a NNNTP which diagrams the Chrome skyline. Preferably in exploded form. Then for Chrome 4.0 we can ship T-shirts (*). -scott (*) http://www.explodedphone.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
