interface hall of shame
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Interface Hall of Shame. Material Sources: www.baddesigns.com www.iarchitect.com/shame.htm. Internet Explorer Cache. Minimum cache size of 1% regardless of current or future drive sizes. No technical constraint. Horizontal Scrolling. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Interface Hall of Shame
Material Sources:
www.baddesigns.comwww.iarchitect.com/shame.htm
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Internet Explorer Cache
Minimum cache size of 1% regardless of current or future drive sizes.
No technical constraint
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Horizontal Scrolling
Humans can scan written material faster from top to bottom rather than left to right.
Vertical lists support single-item scrolling
Internet Explorer 4.0 certificate authority selection panel uses horizontal scrolling.
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Two Item List Box
VB 5.0 uses a two item list box.
A drop down list or radio buttons would be much better.
Similarly, a 1000-item list box is bad.
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Multi-Row Property Sheets Single-row property sheets (tab controls) are among the best user interface
elements ever devised. Multi-row tab controls are perhaps one of the worst interface elements ever! Clicking one of the tabs other than from the bottom row, causes a major
reorganisation of the complete set of tabs.
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Silly Error Messages
Message presented whilst trying to delete files from a nearly-full hard drive in Windows 95.
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Metaphor Limits
As a means of deleting files and documents, the Macintosh trashcan is a perfectly intuitive metaphor.
Unfortunately, the designers decided to extend the trashcan metaphor to include the completely counterintuitive function of ejecting diskettes
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Paintshop Pro
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And now...
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Dr. Zeuss’s ABC, An alphabet game for 3 to 5 year olds.
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Replacing file in Frontpage
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MS Outlook 2002
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LaCie Media Drive