On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 10:25 AM, Dan Shafer wrote:
This is part of another key UI design concept: progressive discovery. Only show the user as much of the UI as is needed to accomplish the immediate objective. Several Claris products 15 years ago, for which the UI was designed by one world-class designer, demonstrated this brilliantly. Why should I even have to look at the checkbox and have it clutter my use of the program if it's not relevant to my current situation? No value. No reason for it to be there.
I find this style frustrating.
I look everywhere trying to set up something only to discover I only had to check some box with some cryptic description to make that setup visible. And then a week or season later I have to do it all over again because I forgot the trick.
Or I don't even think to look for that capability because I never think to check "compatibility features" or some checkbox.
I prefer a setup panel show me what it can do rather than make me tease it out of it. My brain can easily skip over a block of disabled controls. Even when I look at them, they provide information about the nature of that checkbox or radio button.
Or maybe I don't understand your point.
Dar Scott
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