>The problem with this approach is I definitely do not need someone else making the decision of what is "optimal" for me. And that's the crux. The whole featur

>The problem with this approach is I definitely do not need someone else making the decision of what is "optimal" for me. And that's the crux. The whole feature (in its original incarnation) rested on the false assumption that there's a singular "optimal" state at any given time. The Apple Human Interface Guidelines have been a state-of-the-art reference for good UI for a long time, but the part about the zoom button always baffled me, as it directly contradicted several Core Principles laid out in Part I of the book.