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For me, there's no sense of order to the tiles - it's like walking into a cluttered room. Sure - you'd get used to where things were, but the initial reaction f
by benjohnson 13y ago
For me, there's no sense of order to the tiles - it's like walking into a cluttered room. Sure - you'd get used to where things were, but the initial reaction for me was of shock.
- adamwong246 13y agoI actually like this. By removing the tree structure of the traditional menu, you allow the machine to do it's best to populate the screen with tiles it predicts are useful. Instead of forcing everything into a specific box, let the OS conform to the users history.
- vertex-four 13y agoWhat? It never did that when I used it.
- adamwong246 13y agoSorry forgot to mention that idea is a hypothetical use case.
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- iaskwhy 13y agoI'm not sure this is something good though. Can you imagine if the things on your kitchen moved around from place to place without you knowing exactly what was happening? Maybe it's a good idea to let the users organise their apps their own way (or at least allow that for those that care about it).
- vacri 13y agoThis was a sizeable failure when they hid menu items in Office based on predictions on what the user wanted.
- diydsp 13y agoAnd I'll add that it drove me nuts to see random, popcorn-like activity amongst the tiles. I kept trying to find "control panel" to add a second monitor, for example, but one of those tiles spontaneously showed me a video of an fscking carnival in Rio! Then, another flashed a bikini babe in Miami. Then, another flashed a severe weather warning on another continent... It was like being in the control room of a news station! Pretty like a Christmas tree or fireworks, but *first I have to help my girlfriend set up her computer to write her dissertation."
- userbinator 13y agoAs the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes you don't want a thousand, you only want one or two.