Bad UI in OS X - Spotlight
Some small but annoying bad UI from OS X ...
"In today's post I'm going to show you some UI from Tiger and I'm going to point out all the obvious flaws in its design. These are flaws that if I can spot, any one with some serious training in HCI should be able to see in the first few seconds of looking at it, and one does hope that Apple still employs such people (and that someone actually listens to them!).
First of all it looks like a shining beacon of unified goodness. It could have been a brushed metal monstrosity, but someone put their foot down and said no. My thanks to that person.
Unfortunately they didn't similarly put their foot down on some other more pressing issues. Look at all those blue gradient bars. What do they remind you of? Perhaps a selected item in the iTunes' source list, or an item in the Finder's source list? What's the difference? These items are not selected, someone just thought it would be cool if they had a gradient blue background. Bad UI design point number one, don't make two items visually the same but give them different meanings." continued ... (Via ThinkMac)
"In today's post I'm going to show you some UI from Tiger and I'm going to point out all the obvious flaws in its design. These are flaws that if I can spot, any one with some serious training in HCI should be able to see in the first few seconds of looking at it, and one does hope that Apple still employs such people (and that someone actually listens to them!).
First of all it looks like a shining beacon of unified goodness. It could have been a brushed metal monstrosity, but someone put their foot down and said no. My thanks to that person.
Unfortunately they didn't similarly put their foot down on some other more pressing issues. Look at all those blue gradient bars. What do they remind you of? Perhaps a selected item in the iTunes' source list, or an item in the Finder's source list? What's the difference? These items are not selected, someone just thought it would be cool if they had a gradient blue background. Bad UI design point number one, don't make two items visually the same but give them different meanings." continued ... (Via ThinkMac)
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