I’ve already had several opportunities to review the Office 2004 UI failure known as the Formatting Palette. One of the most fundamental problems with it is that it is no substitute for the actual dialog boxes that it is supposed to replace. For each section (“Font“, “Alignment and Spacing“, etc.) of the palette, you can […]
Last week, I wrote an item about the recent Jakob Nielsen article on checkboxes and radio buttons in user interfaces. At the time, I thought that the failure to comply with the basic UI guideline — which says that radio buttons are for mutually exclusive options while checkboxes are for lists of options where the […]
Gasp. I am afraid there are no words for this. Cheeky? Outrageous? They don’t even begin to describe how you feel when you are an Arsenal fan and you see Thierry Henry score with a back heel shot that is more deadly than what most strikers manage to do with the front of their boot. […]
There is one fundamental aspect of the Mac OS X environment that Apple has got wrong, and it is what happens when an application becomes unresponsive. (I wish it never happened, and I am sure Apple wished it never happened as well, but it does happen, far too often in fact.) When an application becomes […]