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Title: Are you Liberal or Conservative?!
Post by: Xairbusdriver on January 10, 2011, 09:27:42 PM
<User Interface Conservatism versus Liberalism>
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Title: Are you Liberal or Conservative?!
Post by: krissel on January 13, 2011, 07:47:41 PM
Interesting that some of the former workers from Kai Krause's software now work for Apple.  Maybe that's why some of the interface has undergone odd changes.

http://www.mprove.de/webdiary/meta/index.html
Title: Are you Liberal or Conservative?!
Post by: Xairbusdriver on January 13, 2011, 08:29:09 PM
I downloaded Elements 9 to test drive, is there anything worth paying for? dntknw.gif Too soon...

But, every time I look an Adobe app (which is very seldom and limited to mostly Elements, anyway), I can't help but wonder why they want to port the Windows method of displaying stuff. After all, they have to actually rebuild part of the APIs included in the OS! I can't believe it's more efficient or easier to do things that way and it obviously is uglier. wallbash.gif Mostly little things like perfectly rectangular buttons instead of nicely curved ones, progress bars that simply jump from one arbitrary point to the next instead of smoothly "progressing" (some even replicate the multi-segmented, four or five segment "block" that moves completely across the progress bar multiple times because the movement has nothing to do with any computed time remaining estimate).

I suppose it comes from not having any GUI standards on the Windows side for so long (and apparently still only the bare minimum now) and being forced to create everything except the file system and the text characters in every app? dntknw.gif