Garrett, that wasn't harsh; that was the "Paula Abdul" review. Now for the "Simon Cowell" review:
1) The post and the web site are the first promotional material that prompted me to download the application for the sole reason so that I could stop reading the promotional material. 2) When I opened the program, my first thought was that this "Welcome" menu was the most hideous stack screen I've ever seen: http://wjm.org/linked/phen-welcome.jpg 3) I took a chance and clicked "Make New Volume" as my first click. 4) My first thought was that I was wrong. *THIS* is the most hideous stack screen I've ever seen: http://wjm.org/linked/phen-diary.jpg Aesthetic issues aside for the moment, why are you taking over my entire screen? Why do you have three iterations of the menu bar? Why do I have two confirmation dialogs of the creation of a new "Volume" when I already gave it a name and such? I soon realized that this was supposed to be some kind of off-screen compositing. This is because I quit immediately, and relaunched (to create photographic evidence of the crime scene). On second launch you trim the visible area properly, but still place me in "kiosk" mode. If a stack is supposed to be open all the time throughout the day, shouldn't it be a little easier to switch to my email or word processor? But note, once you do the clipping properly your little confirmation alerts are off the visible area -- I couldn't click them, I had to remember they showed up and press Enter twice to dismiss the invisible dialogs, or else I got "beep, beep, beep" anywhere I clicked. Since the title bar was still visible (you really don't have a Windows machine anywhere to test?) I could drag around horizontally to peek at what else was there. Here's something that came up: http://wjm.org/linked/phen-oikos.jpg Is this inspired by Microsoft Bob? Or perhaps the old Sony MagicCap? Why is it a Star of David? Is a Crescent Moon interface available? Given the pain, I think a crucifix metaphor might just work! A couple people mentioned the issues with buttons... the myriad styles, the clipped text of assorted fonts, sizes and colors, the random placements, the lack of labels... but I think this could all be solved with a handy, printable quick reference guide. I've helpfully prepared one: http://wjm.org/linked/phen-quickref.gif Yes, I know the audience is booing and hissing now. I'm so evil. "Garrett Hylltun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I don't want this to come across as being harsh on this program, but I did > see some things that really turn me off in a program. > > The interface is a big thing with me. So right now my focus is on the gui > of the program. [...] > I feel bad for bringing this up because it looks like you put a lot of > time and effort into this. But the interface is going to kill any hope of > this program being taken seriously. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
