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Apple
and Jolly Rancher
Aquanaughts
and the new User Interface
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Apple just previewed their neat new Aqua interface that
will be used in the forthcoming OS X. Steve Jobs started by
saying that it was interface that made you want to lick it.
Imagery aside, the interface does remind me of what would
happen if you left a jolly
rancher candy on the Mac interface on a hot summer day
-- so I refer to it the jolly rancher interface.
Interface people are paid to notice all the little
details, and make sure that everything makes sense and is
conveying the most information possible, in the clearest and
easiest to understand ways -- basically we are like editors,
under-appreciated nitpickers. Let's go through the new
interface changes, and try to pick some nits and see what we
can learn.
Following is a series of small articles that look at the
different aspects of the interface:
Conclusion
I'm not pleased with all the choices made... but I'm more
pleased than I am discouraged. So things are going in the
right direction.
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