Re: [Usability] Save Icon

[Evandro Fernandes Giovanini <efgiovanini gmail com>]

Em Qui, 2006-02-02 às 16:58 +0000, Iain * escreveu:
> > > >  But they could have affected  these people in a positive way without
> > > > affecting anyone in a negative way, like I suggested. Instead of creating a
> > > > Go button, simply add a tooltip for these people.
> > >
> > > A tooltip would have annoyed other people: Me for instance...it feels
> > > like clippy
> > > "I see you've typed a URL...if you press enter, then it might actually
> > > do something"
> > >
> >
> > But *you*'d never see the tooltip, so it would never annoy you. The
> > tooltip would appear only if you typed something but didn't press Enter
> > for a long time.
> 
> Thats a large presumption.

Indeed. If I had a proposal for this issue in particular it would be to
copy Apple and not have a Go button or a tooltip at all.

> > I think it was Steve Jobs (in his
> > NeXT days) that said that one of the things they used to do to design
> > their applications was making sure people didn't need the help system.
> 
> And yet, putting a button that says "Go" seems to be making sure that
> people don't need the help system, as opposed to your proposal that
> decides that you're a bit thick and shows you the help system whether
> you want it or not.
> 

I don't agree that people would need the Help system if the Go button
wasn't there. How did they figure out they can actually type a URL
anyway? It wasn't because of the Go button. If anything the Go button
might have confused them. The bar says www.google.com, the page
displayed is Google. So what does Go mean? Go where? 

So if people are going to figure out they can type an address in the URL
bar I'd let them figure out they have to press enter after typing too.

Cheers,
Evandro