On Oct 23, 2007, at 2:34 PM, Maxim Soloviev wrote: > > Also I would like to know what do you think about following idea: > > As you know sometimes people organize shortcuts on their desktops in > the groups, like > - Internet related, > - Office related, > - Games, > - Multimedia and so on. >
I was thinking about this earlier this year as well when I noticed somebody using tiny icons on his desktop. I turned my own mac os desktop icons to the smallest size and moved the labels to the right. I then used the label colors to group related items. I thought about creating a custom desktop background with labeled boxes but was too lazy. I figured that I am the only person using my computer so I know what the groupings are without explicit labels. Sort of like navigating your own neighborhood based on landmarks and geography rather than street signs. Here's a cropped example from my desktop. I have these alias drop folders that I use to collect virtual clippings from the internet. I just drag cool and interesting images from my browser to those folders: http://danielyang.com/images/desktopgroups.png -Dan ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
