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Haha, I love the bit about pictograms. I have to use Xcode occasionally at work, and it's always a case of hovering over a few dozen buttons trying to guess whi
by coldpie 11y ago
Haha, I love the bit about pictograms. I have to use Xcode occasionally at work, and it's always a case of hovering over a few dozen buttons trying to guess which one might do what I want.
http://codewithchris.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/img/xcode_5_workspace_diagram.jpg http://codewithchris.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/img/xcode_5_wor...
- bennyg 11y agoIt's like that for almost all IDEs. I remember thinking the same thing for Visual Studio, Android Studio, Eclipse...
- cjrp 11y ago...what does the tuxedo button do?
- wingerlang 11y agoIt is the "assistant view" which opens a second tab with an editor where it automatically tries to open related files. Although it is now looking like this: http://i.imgur.com/gA8AwmG.png http://i.imgur.com/gA8AwmG.png
- 91bananas 11y agoLimited space on a screen begs for condensed ways of expressing information and ideas. Icons make a ton of sense compared to sometimes 20-30 char strings.
- ikurei 11y agoOther IDEs do the same. I guess it's an special case: all of an IDE's users are pretty damn tech-literate, will probably agree to devote some time to learn its language and tricks, and value screen real state. I've only had to use XCode a few times, and I felt lost and scared, but surely I also felt like that on my first times with VS.