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Re: Vista User Interface Mistakes - Critique from a Former Microsoft Excel Project Manager

this post is interesting

mk5000

"The trouble with doing something right the first time
is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was"--Mandie Smith


Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Choices = Headaches
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | I'm sure there's a whole team of UI designers, programmers, and
> | testers who worked very hard on the OFF button in Windows Vista,
> | but seriously, is this the best you could come up with?
> |
> | Image of the menu in Windows Vista for turning off the computer
> |
> | Every time you want to leave your computer, you have to choose
> | between nine, count them, nine options: two icons and seven menu
> | items.
> `----
>
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/21.html
>
> It would have been ironic if the button /still/ said "Start", which is the
> route to /finishing/ a session.
>
> How about navigating through vendor names to find a program that serves a
> certain function (whose name is, in its own right, rarely rhetorical)?


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