We should also be mindful of what MS is doing with Vista as this will influence future users muscle memory etc.
The start menu in Vista is different from XP (at least in the current beta). Rgds Paul Glynn Foster wrote: >Hi, > >On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 16:05 -0800, David John Burrowes wrote: > > >>Question: I've often heard in usability studies people basically >>asking for basically a basic layout of information in the UI to be >>like Windows... not that they want a clone of Windows, but just that >>this is what their muscle memory and mental familiarity expect. With >>this in mind, I wonder why we aren't doing something more like Windows >>XP's Start menu, which is dual columned and separates recently >>frequently used apps from links to common places in the >>filesystems/dataspace, and so on. I'd think that would be better for >>the familiarity/usability of this environment. >> >> > >Actually that's interesting because the latest screenshots coming from >NLD [Novell Linux Desktop] suggest that they've gone for a 2 columned >approach too. The community were relatively unhappy with this because >it's yet another 'Ximian based conspiracy to keep them out of the loop', >but it might be nice to experiment with this kind of thing, if we could >do it compatibly. > > >Glynn > >_______________________________________________ >desktop-discuss mailing list >desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > >
