It's hardly elitist to say that a software company needs to address
the population that they are selling to. Macs may make up 10% of the
browsing population, but they probably are nearing 50% of the design
world (where for a long time, they held over that number).
But even if they are less than those numbers, Designers usually also
have good taste, so therefore they don't base their decisions of what
tools to use solely on 'the largest market'. So, call me/us elitist.
Frankly, in this context, that's a compliment.
Seriously, name-calling is not helpful here. From what I saw, the
software looked pretty ugly to me. The clumsy tabbed Project panel was
a classic example of bad Windows software design (putting everything
into tree outlines at the left of the screen because that's the way
File Manager did so in Win 3.1). The fact that it looks like a
programmers IDE makes me suspect that the product was not developed by
designers (even if it is for them).
Worse still, the documents it appeared to produce looked even more
tasteless and ugly. The Banking Application example suffered from poor
design choices all over the place (badly designed tables, an unclear
affordance for the collapsed panel, etc.).
I suspect that this is really a package for programmers who have been
forced to do the Design work a designer would do. That's why it's for
Windows only, and that's why the software itself is designed like a
programming environment. That's why some of us look at it and get a
bit nauseous.
Don't they realize that Mac users employ GUI design tools as well
(and probably in disproportionate numbers)?
I'm sorry, but I just can't let this comment stand.
What exactly is the problem of choosing the single largest market and
building a product to address it? It doesn't support linux either, or
3270 display terminals for that matter.
I find the comments on this thread to be absurdly elitist. Less than
a week ago, we were discussing how pencil and paper are a fine medium
for wireframing. But a simple app that looks like it lets you throw
together ideas quickly and easily, and transport them in small,
effective packages is crap? What exactly is the problem here?
Is there some rule that professionals must restrict themselves to
"blessed" tools? What about those of us who think those tools suck?
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