MMB to repeat something burried in a sub-menu is probably the one thing I find myself missing in just about any other application out there. I wish others were doing that. -Fabian
On 19 August 2013 20:25, Luc-Eric Rousseau <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Christoph Muetze <[email protected]> > wrote: > > ...He didn't just do the skin but also the functional design of the user > > interface, right? I was always under the impression that he was the > designer > > behind the UI. Am i wrong about this? > > > > I always have a hard time explaining people that i do interface design - > and > > that sometimes includes (but is entirely not about) button painting ;) I > > couldn't care less about the (admittedly beautiful) skin of Softimage - > but > > the UI... oh boy, that's (for the largest part) a piece of true art. > > No, he only did the look and skin of the UI. In an interview on > xsibase, it was implied he did "ui design" but this is wrong, it was > only graphic design. > > For the functional design, we had at many people in the early days who > designed that. > > They were called Program Managers, which is how that job was called > at Microsoft in the 1990s, but in this decade we'd call them > interaction designers. For example, one person from Softimage|DS > called Michael Sheasby > (http://patent.ipexl.com/inventor/Michael_C_Sheasby_1.html) is > responsible for all the "modeless inspector" design, i.e. everything > about how the PPGs work, without which XSI wouldn't feel like XSI. > There were different people for each areas. >
