It all depends on who your audience is. I personally don't need these extra buttons.
I'm thinking about all those people who are struggling with learning basics (those boomers who are struggling with what can be delicately called computer "literacy" issues). Every day, I'm on the phone with at least one of these poor souls, intelligent but clueless about basics, and who have poor mental models of how their systems work (and I'm talking about software that's five years old). To make matters worse, they either resist formal training, or have had "horrific" experiences, making them unwilling to try again. They don't learn from books, online tutorials; experiential learners all. I'm perfectly happy with this part of the interface "as is"--and my cadre of struggling boomers whom I advise probably would second that vote. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44088 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
