[Sigia-l] Defeated by Orthodoxy, again

[Will Parker]

On Jul 23, 2007, at 11:32 PM, Ziya Oz wrote:

> What's a Tuesday without a mental assault on design sensibilities via
> Alertbox.
>
> Jakob Nielsen encounters a badly designed dialog box (it  
> happens :-) and, as
> he almost always manages to do, generalizes it into meaningless design
> orthodoxy, glued to his rear-view window:
>
> "The big lesson here is the need to stick with the design  
> conventions that
> users know."

Consarn it! You can have my 80x40-character Wyse greenscreen terminal  
when ... Ooooh, look! An iPhone!

- Will

Will Parker
wparker at ChannelingDesign.com

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that were the case, then Microsoft would have great products.” -  
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