Re: [Usability] Three dialog problems

[Mariano Suárez-Alvarez <msuarezalvarez arnet com ar>]

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 16:36 -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 21:48 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> > For some reason the Apple guys seem to see no problem in relying on 
> > drag and drop.
> 
> Apple's target audience isn't Windows users. It's Mac users. Sure,
> they've gotten a few Windows users to switch over.
> 
> One thing that has come up in usability testing in the Novell Cambridge,
> MA office, is that the end users who we ended up testing that were Mac
> users, did Drag & Drop, while those that were Windows users, did Right
> Click.
> 
> Both of them are originally designed to be "advanced" user actions, to
> speed up the flow of interaction. However, given that almost all users
> do them now, trying to call them advanced, and pushing to avoid them,
> is probably not the best interest to have. Why isn't there a check box
> outside the right-click menu to show hidden files? :)
> 

Because for the immense majority of users, for the most of their time,
they do not need to see those files not hopefully know they exist?

> I think perhaps a different UI entirely for the save/open dialogs is the
> best solution, but we are stuck with what we have for now.

Nothing that vaporous can be a solution ;-)

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