Mat Hounsell wrote:
User Interface Design is 'publicly' undervalued by most programmers. Simplelyits even more annoying when developers confuse interface design with feature sets....
because it is difficult, time consuming and often annoying to implement. Which
is why developers pretend not to care; even though they are long term computer
users and know its value.
When I was working for Motorola on their mobile phone software we where toldhmmm - so you often had people from siemens in your office, at your computer, looking at images of your phone and you kept "top secret classified pictures" in the same directory with the same permissions and security settings as the public images ???
the V70 (the one with the rotating front) was a "Trade Secret" and it's details
were to be kept as such. (Lest Nokia or Siemens find out.)
Now if You had been showing of the product pictures, by opening "ShowImage" and
selecting all the public ones, whould you think it proper for the image viewer
to show the next file (the "Trade Secret") because it was in the directory?
Even though You had explicitly selected a restricted set of images?
Pictures can range from trade secrets to Dilberts. Would you show every pictureShowimage isnt doing that - its doing it by directory - unless your trying to tell us your keep your XXX porn in the same directory as the pics of the family vacation ??? and you are then inviting your mum to come and have a look at it ??
on your hard drive to your boss? To your Mum?
No its not usually wrong when designed right. ShowImage is about showing images, if it starts offering editing - then that would be bloat - its not. If it starts offering to accept pictures from scanners - then that would be bloat - its not.Helpful software is usually wrong. It is bad enough to have software do exactly what its told. I for one don't want software that does what it thinks is next.
Cheers, Nik