[Sigia-l] Organising content by sound

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Skot Nelson:

>> sonic cues have been a part of Mac OS for a long time, both for OS functions
>> as well ... I actually find them useful.
> Ugh. You and...who else?

17 other people. :-) I always get this reaction on sonic cues.

Whenever I told people that one of the things I missed in transition from
Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X was the system sounds, they'd look at me as though I'd
finally lost it. To show you that even someone like me can be cured of
heresy :-) I no longer use system sounds.

App sounds, however, are still very much useful to me. Some of the apps I
use during design have been in my daily regimen pretty much every single day
for over a decade. I work extremely fast with those apps and anticipating
several steps ahead and pre-positioning the cursor to where it should be for
the next move as the computer tries to catch up to me is a very common event
during production.

It's within this context that the sonic cues, which one acclimates quickly
through use, become very useful aids that make all the difference in
creating a smooth flow. You know something should, is about to or did happen
and lo and behold a little sonic cue announces/validates it, etc. You don't
think about it. You react to it much like riding a bike or playing an
instrument, 'naturally'.

This is always an option and, unless one uses them for period of time, it'd
be hard to see how useful they can be. I know I scoffed at them when I was
first introduced.

Ziya
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