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Re: ptrmn

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X-Copy looks a bit.... cluttered.

coultonp

For good user experience the application should become invisible and the user merely performs the task. Personally I feel mobile is only justwaking up to these ideas. I recommend people read Don Normans "Design of Future Things" and "Design of Everday Things" which arent specifically about mobile but are allabout designing for the user

ptrmn

Besides obvious hygiene aspects, like programs working as advertised and being stable, to me the most important aspect of user experience is that the UI doesn't get in the way when I'm trying to do things. Too many button presses, too many sub menus, too much of what you might consider as ease of use if you follow the Microsoft school, it just ruins the user experience for me.

As for the WOW, to achieve that you have to take a step beyond regular UI toolkits and do something different. I still find myself longing back to the 80's, when an app could have its complete own look. One of my favorites is X-Copy: http://www.vht-dk.dk/vhtdk/amiga/desc/gif/xcopy65.gif