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Like big revolutions in fine art or music, the UI patterns seem obvious and common to contemporary users, but you have to judge them by the genius it took for M
by user3939382 5y ago
Like big revolutions in fine art or music, the UI patterns seem obvious and common to contemporary users, but you have to judge them by the genius it took for MS to arrive there on their own for the first time.
I would argue that a step up the size of what we saw from Windows 3.1 to 95 hasn’t been seen since, certainly not on the desktop.
- cosmotic 5y agoI'd argue the what we have now is worse than 95/OS9. Affordances, feedback, and system status are gone, UI elements are gone or hidden until hover, error recoverability is an after thought, and consistency is nonexistent. Everything has taken second fiddle to visual aesthetic.
- DoingIsLearning 5y ago> UI elements are gone or hidden until hover Discoverability. It seems increasingly hard in modern UI to know what is something I can interact with and what is just a text label.
- hulitu 5y agoAlso error management is gone. We are back at "General failure reading drive A: " error messages. But the more common error handling is to crash or to spit a cryptic error message.
- hulitu 5y agoMS did not arrive there on their own. They had a lawsuit with apple and if you look at graphics toolkits around that time most of them had those features.
- jauco 5y agoBoth apple and ms stole most of it from xerox parc (star desktop)