Comments on: Muse on interface design http://blog.mikepan.com/muse-on-interface-design1/ making visuals with technology Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:39:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Mike http://blog.mikepan.com/muse-on-interface-design1/#comment-177 Mike Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:40:02 +0000 http://blog.mikepan.com/?p=226#comment-177 Bloated UI's can actually slow people down quite a bit. And yeah Mike, I've noticed many people don't seem to mind bloated UI, perhaps they just accept whatever UI is thrown at them. My main gripe, though, is lots of small, overlapping windows you need to hunt around for. I hate making every other click, a click to move something around. Bloated UI’s can actually slow people down quite a bit.
And yeah Mike, I’ve noticed many people don’t seem to mind bloated UI, perhaps they just accept whatever UI is thrown at them.

My main gripe, though, is lots of small, overlapping windows you need to hunt around for. I hate making every other click, a click to move something around.

]]> By: kiwi http://blog.mikepan.com/muse-on-interface-design1/#comment-110 kiwi Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:13:29 +0000 http://blog.mikepan.com/?p=226#comment-110 I agree totally. What annoys me the most, is the kind of additional menus under the main menus, which contain just a few big buttons with large icons and text under the icons (like new, save etc.) I never click on those buttons in most apps, and at worst there's just two or three of them, yet the bar extends through the whole window, wasting a lot of vertical space. I agree totally. What annoys me the most, is the kind of additional menus under the main menus, which contain just a few big buttons with large icons and text under the icons (like new, save etc.) I never click on those buttons in most apps, and at worst there’s just two or three of them, yet the bar extends through the whole window, wasting a lot of vertical space.

]]> By: mike pan http://blog.mikepan.com/muse-on-interface-design1/#comment-107 mike pan Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:54:48 +0000 http://blog.mikepan.com/?p=226#comment-107 Blender 2.5's UI definitely embraced widescreens with the new default vertical panels. It's so much superior to the old horizontal setup. Ribbon is an interesting concept. But then again it takes up a lot of vertical space when expanded, I saw someone writing a paper with Word 2007 on a netbook today, they can only see two lines of text. The problem is most people don't seems to mind the limited screen space, even though they can easily mimimize the UI with a few clicks. When you are focused on writing, all that formatting UI is useless and is just taking up screenspace. Blender 2.5′s UI definitely embraced widescreens with the new default vertical panels. It’s so much superior to the old horizontal setup.

Ribbon is an interesting concept. But then again it takes up a lot of vertical space when expanded, I saw someone writing a paper with Word 2007 on a netbook today, they can only see two lines of text. The problem is most people don’t seems to mind the limited screen space, even though they can easily mimimize the UI with a few clicks. When you are focused on writing, all that formatting UI is useless and is just taking up screenspace.

]]> By: Stas http://blog.mikepan.com/muse-on-interface-design1/#comment-101 Stas Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:17:22 +0000 http://blog.mikepan.com/?p=226#comment-101 Hi, I've started wondering on this myself too often. Even when You use a spacious large enough 24 desktop screen as I do every day a two pages really fit well. I really can put two A4 sheets on my screen and it's five fingers from side and only finger and a half on top as a space that is left. Thinking that all new gizmos are really taking their time to arrange their space MOSTLY on the right side of the screen a left side navigation for the programs should be something for everybody a serious consideration.. More of for people that are breathing movies a new 2.11:1 aspect ratio TV and I hope soon 30" monitors will come. So that simply means - more side space then ever. I know that usually it's not practical to arrange tabs etc in columns, but blender proves the opposite, and even M$ are preferring dropping menus from some time now (vista style office etc.) And a quick question regarding this one - why not moving at least Your bottom bar to the side? I'm hiding mine, since I prefer Alt-TABBING and ususally not too many (only 3 to 4) applications running :-) Hi,

I’ve started wondering on this myself too often. Even when You use a spacious large enough 24 desktop screen as I do every day a two pages really fit well. I really can put two A4 sheets on my screen and it’s five fingers from side and only finger and a half on top as a space that is left. Thinking that all new gizmos are really taking their time to arrange their space MOSTLY on the right side of the screen a left side navigation for the programs should be something for everybody a serious consideration.. More of for people that are breathing movies a new 2.11:1 aspect ratio TV and I hope soon 30″ monitors will come. So that simply means – more side space then ever. I know that usually it’s not practical to arrange tabs etc in columns, but blender proves the opposite, and even M$ are preferring dropping menus from some time now (vista style office etc.) And a quick question regarding this one – why not moving at least Your bottom bar to the side? I’m hiding mine, since I prefer Alt-TABBING and ususally not too many (only 3 to 4) applications running :-)

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