Comments on: Mac OS 3: User Center Design Exemplar http://www.pavley.com/2009/11/01/mac-os-3-user-center-design-exemplar/ “A great leap in the dark” – Thomas Hobbes Mon, 17 May 2010 19:27:50 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: pav http://www.pavley.com/2009/11/01/mac-os-3-user-center-design-exemplar/comment-page-1/#comment-144 pav Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:53:07 +0000 http://www.pavley.com/?p=111#comment-144 That's a great point Dan. I bet you could measure the quality of a UI design based on its stability over time. I have mixed feelings about Adobe. The first few versions of Photoshop and Illustrator were so intuitive! Simplicity, "the art of maximizing the amount of work not done", was lost along the way to CS4. Thanks for your comment! Pav That’s a great point Dan. I bet you could measure the quality of a UI design based on its stability over time.

I have mixed feelings about Adobe. The first few versions of Photoshop and Illustrator were so intuitive! Simplicity, “the art of maximizing the amount of work not done”, was lost along the way to CS4.

Thanks for your comment!
Pav

]]> By: Dan Larsson http://www.pavley.com/2009/11/01/mac-os-3-user-center-design-exemplar/comment-page-1/#comment-143 Dan Larsson Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:31:22 +0000 http://www.pavley.com/?p=111#comment-143 Hi John, Good writings! Good design is difficult, and I totally agree that less is more. One of the things that impresses a lot is the Google homepage. After 10-years it is still the same. That is good design and also realizing why the customer comes to their site. Remeber what happend to eXcite, Lycos, Infoseek, etc after a few years. They all tried to be portals to everything but search. The true genius of Google is of course not their search engine but their ad engine :) That is the one that is bringing all the cash. Another company that has done a great job in design is Adobe, their current design for the adobe reader program is really nice in its simplicity. Dan Hi John,

Good writings! Good design is difficult, and I totally agree that less is more.

One of the things that impresses a lot is the Google homepage. After 10-years it is still the same. That is good design and also realizing why the customer comes to their site. Remeber what happend to eXcite, Lycos, Infoseek, etc after a few years. They all tried to be portals to everything but search. The true genius of Google is of course not their search engine but their ad engine :) That is the one that is bringing all the cash. Another company that has done a great job in design is Adobe, their current design for the adobe reader program is really nice in its simplicity.

Dan

]]> By: admin http://www.pavley.com/2009/11/01/mac-os-3-user-center-design-exemplar/comment-page-1/#comment-137 admin Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:06:57 +0000 http://www.pavley.com/?p=111#comment-137 The Mac OS 3 UX Simulator has it's own page now! Yey! The most recent version will always hang out there! The Mac OS 3 UX Simulator has it’s own page now! Yey! The most recent version will always hang out there!

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