Comments on: Computer Administrative Debris http://katidev.com/blog/2008/02/15/computer-administrative-debris/ Developing Interfaces with Cocoa Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:21:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Steve http://katidev.com/blog/2008/02/15/computer-administrative-debris/#comment-364 Steve Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:21:50 +0000 http://katidev.com/blog/?p=20#comment-364 Cool stuff. Nuff Said. Cool stuff. Nuff Said.

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]]> By: randall7 http://katidev.com/blog/2008/02/15/computer-administrative-debris/#comment-246 randall7 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:42:38 +0000 http://katidev.com/blog/?p=20#comment-246 The thing is, without a title and navigation bar, the user is missing a lot of important context. When I visit a web site, I’m happy to see a small banner across the top with a few navigation links, because it quickly gives me some important context about the content I’m looking at, and about the site itself. It’s not strictly necessary, but that’s fine as long as it doesn’t get in my way, and lets my focus on the content. And the way most sites implement a navigation bar, it disappears as soon as you scroll the page, like the URL bar in Fennec. So it’s not persistently in your face, or wasting important screen space. The other thing a navigation bar does is give you some idea about where the links lead. When I follow a link labeled “about” from someone’s blog, I have a pretty good idea where it’s going to take me. So, by all means, let’s eliminate useless administrative debris. But be careful; you aren’t just moving functionality, you’re also removing important contextual information. -------------------------------------------------------------- randall <a href="http://www.inspire_itsolution.com" rel="nofollow">SEO</a> The thing is, without a title and navigation bar, the user is missing a lot of important context. When I visit a web site, I’m happy to see a small banner across the top with a few navigation links, because it quickly gives me some important context about the content I’m looking at, and about the site itself. It’s not strictly necessary, but that’s fine as long as it doesn’t get in my way, and lets my focus on the content. And the way most sites implement a navigation bar, it disappears as soon as you scroll the page, like the URL bar in Fennec. So it’s not persistently in your face, or wasting important screen space.

The other thing a navigation bar does is give you some idea about where the links lead. When I follow a link labeled “about” from someone’s blog, I have a pretty good idea where it’s going to take me.

So, by all means, let’s eliminate useless administrative debris. But be careful; you aren’t just moving functionality, you’re also removing important contextual information.

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]]> By: Cathy http://katidev.com/blog/2008/02/15/computer-administrative-debris/#comment-243 Cathy Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:01:16 +0000 http://katidev.com/blog/?p=20#comment-243 Hi amsn, I also believe that those fullscreen apps are the leading edge of UI on OS X, despite the fact that they're not very functional yet. About Aperture - their fullscreen modes are great, but I wanted to focus on how they dealt with the clutter (debris) in their main workflow window from one release to the next. They managed to reduce it significantly without removing any of the features or changing the UI in a dramatic way, so I think they deserve lots of credit for that. It also goes to show how some thoughful organization can improve our window designs. Indeed, Lightroom is very clever about hiding and revealing parts of the UI. If anyone is making a large, singled-window UI, it's a great app to look at. Thanks for the comments :) Hi amsn,

I also believe that those fullscreen apps are the leading edge of UI on OS X, despite the fact that they’re not very functional yet.

About Aperture - their fullscreen modes are great, but I wanted to focus on how they dealt with the clutter (debris) in their main workflow window from one release to the next. They managed to reduce it significantly without removing any of the features or changing the UI in a dramatic way, so I think they deserve lots of credit for that. It also goes to show how some thoughful organization can improve our window designs.

Indeed, Lightroom is very clever about hiding and revealing parts of the UI. If anyone is making a large, singled-window UI, it’s a great app to look at.

Thanks for the comments :)

]]> By: amsn http://katidev.com/blog/2008/02/15/computer-administrative-debris/#comment-242 amsn Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:54:04 +0000 http://katidev.com/blog/?p=20#comment-242 The Aperture screen shots are both pretty horrifying in this contextshots don’t show is Aperture’s superior “full screen mode”, which hides all this “debris”, substituting smaller, less obtrusive floating palettes that the user calls up as needed. In contrast, Adobe Lightroom has a unique user interface system that encourages the user to show and hide different control areas as needed: it’s really a pretty great GUI that is significantly aided by remarkably thoughtful typography. It makes me wonder, are there any commercial apps for mac that are 100% fullscreen? Besides video games. Come to think of it, Front Row and Time Machine are fullscreen and they both deal with the transition very nicey. Seems like UI is going to get more and more interesting in the near future. If our goal is to minimize the conceptual distance between the user’s mental model of the application (remember, the developer’s mental model is almost irrelevant) and what they need to do to meet that modelI believe both these products represent the leading edge of “major application” interface design, despite their respective warts Aperture also has a “show me the photo only” mode. -------------------------------- amsn <a href="http://katidev.com" rel="nofollow"></a> The Aperture screen shots are both pretty horrifying in this contextshots don’t show is Aperture’s superior “full screen mode”, which hides all this “debris”, substituting smaller, less obtrusive floating palettes that the user calls up as needed. In contrast, Adobe Lightroom has a unique user interface system that encourages the user to show and hide different control areas as needed: it’s really a pretty great GUI that is significantly aided by remarkably thoughtful typography.
It makes me wonder, are there any commercial apps for mac that are 100% fullscreen? Besides video games. Come to think of it, Front Row and Time Machine are fullscreen and they both deal with the transition very nicey. Seems like UI is going to get more and more interesting in the near future.
If our goal is to minimize the conceptual distance between the user’s mental model of the application (remember, the developer’s mental model is almost irrelevant) and what they need to do to meet that modelI believe both these products represent the leading edge of “major application” interface design, despite their respective warts
Aperture also has a “show me the photo only” mode.
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