[Sigia-l] Rollover Question (Web 2.0)

Sat Sep 30 02:02:38 EDT 2006

Wow. I wrote an article for ACM's SIGDOC journal about postmodernism,  
spatiality, and  Word's attempt to take over the interface (among  
other things, and then a whole book on the general topic of space and  
interface). Apparently I missed about four menubars. You win.

There's so much "surfacing" of information here that the space for  
actual work is completely subordinated.

Not that most users would ever display all these toolbars, but the  
tendency in modern interfaces is to claim screen real estate for  
reminders (menubars, tool palettes, etc.)  that the user's work is  
constructed in terms of how it can be modified, rather than how it's  
performed.

- Johndan

On Sep 30, 2006, at 1:40 AM, Jared M. Spool wrote:

> At 11:58 PM 9/29/2006, Skot Nelson wrote:
>> On Sep-29-2006, at 12:13 , Will Parker wrote:
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>>> the designer has just thrown EVERYTHING on the
>>> screen and forced it to fit by hammering the resulting UI imagery
>>> into a paste.
>>
>> Wow. This is the best description of a Microsoft interface that's
>> ever been repeated.
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> http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmspool/256114913/
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