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"...the UI was clunky as hell..." The Interface Hall of Shame website (a now defunct, but once popular website with examples of badly designed UIs) did a criti

• stan_rogers 10y ago
  Most of what's listed there is about bad application development (error checking and so forth). Many other complaints come from the fact that Notes was multi-platform (Win, Mac, OS/2, many Unices) and was consistent across all clients, rather than trying to look native in any one of them. The thing about that site that gives me the greatest kicks is that the pages of application tiles on the workspace has since become the way to do things, the only real changes being colour depth, screen resolution and vogue colour choices. (About F5/F9: F5 didn't mean "refresh" to anybody until MSIE came along; F9 did.)