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Windows 95 remains the pinnacle of clear, discoverable GUI. It's like the companies rolling out UI elements don't even bother running them past people, and are
by romwell 3y ago
Windows 95 remains the pinnacle of clear, discoverable GUI.
It's like the companies rolling out UI elements don't even bother running them past people, and are guided solely by what the design department thinks looks cool that day.
- function_seven 3y agoI’m might quibble a bit and choose Windows 2000, or even XP despite the Fischer Price skin, but generally I agree. Clickable things should have some minimal skeuomorphic detail and scrollbars need to be a minimum of some thickness.
- emayljames 3y agoEspecially scrollbars. For a webdev trying to figure out what element triggers the scrollbar is extremely difficult with thin disappearing scrollbars.
- ginko 3y agoYou could disable the Fischer Price skin in XP. Many people did.
- beders 3y agoIt was IBM who established the standards with its CUA books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
- TheChaplain 3y agoThis with MacOS 9 and GTK2 not far behind.
- vultour 3y agoWindows 7 was the last one that let you select the "classical" pre-XP theme. I was the only person I know who used it, and I miss it to this day.
- seabass-labrax 3y agoLots of educational institutions and public libraries used it here in Britain. I think it was good at squeezing a few years of extra life out of the hopelessly underpowered machines that they bought, but I rather think removing the myriad copies of Java Updater and the McAfee Virus* would have been more effective. * Officially called the McAfee Antivirus, but I've never understood why