<opinion>
I find icons overwhelming except for the most general of tasks.
Icons without tooltips are unforgivable.
</opinion>
I know exactly which audio app you're talking about. Not only were
there too many icons, but many of the representations were
misleading. And no tooltips, at least in the last version I bought.
The waveform representation was ugly to look at as well. I bought
into 2-3 versions, hoping they'd clean it all up, but it never
happened.
I needed an app to quickly slice and dice 'interleaved' stereo audio
files, and was forced to use it as there was nothing else in the
market. (The industry leader, Pro Tools, does not supply a product
that will allow direct editing of these kind of files for some reason
- intermediate files are always created in and out.)
I finally found Soundstudio 3 - and it looks and works sorta like Pro
Tools. Great for $79
In the example I gave of the audio editing app, there were two
problems. 1), was that the programmers had made bad choices of
icons, and 2) they had put 30 or so badly chosen icons in one long
row. I'd contend that no-one would find it easy to learn to use that
app. Even well chosen icons would have been a problem here, I think,
as there were just too many of them.
Mark
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stephen barncard
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