Bill,
This "diary" and your review are the best things I've seen since
reading the Book of the Subgenius. Very enjoyable!
Best,
Jerry Daniels
Tool makers for the 21st century
http://www.daniels-mara.com
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On Jun 17, 2006, at 1:12 PM, Bill Marriott wrote:
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"
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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.
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