![]() ![]() Only with a task dialog can the developer change the button face text easily. Only with Vista (how many years after Mac?) did Microsoft introduce Task Dialog. The reason, until Windows Vista, a Windows Programmer cannot (atleast easily) change the OK/CANCEL or ABORT/RETRY/CANCEL text from a dialog. OK, if Microsoft is making these kind of silly usability mistakes, why should Windows programmers also follow the same cluttered, “un-minimalistic” UI design? Don’t shout at me, I’m also a Windows Developer. A minimalistic UI shouldn’t be cluttered like this. Users will only be confused with this kind of workflow, wherein I have to open Outlook to see my system information. Why do we need a shortcut to system info dialog from Outlook? It has an option to open System Information dialog from the About box. Look at this screenshot taken from Office 2010. The UI is uncluttered with unwanted options unlike Windows. The buttons are marked clearly and user can click an option with confidence. In the Smultron’s case, the user needn’t even read what the Application is trying to say. Every extra unit of information in a dialogue competes with the relevant units of information and diminishes their relative visibility. People prefer minimalistic user interface.Īccording to Jakob Nielsen’s Heuristics for User Interface Design, one of his heuristics for usablity design states that,ĭialogues should not contain information which is irrelevant or rarely needed. What’s the problem with this design? – Lack of minimalism. If you really want to lose them click OK, else click Cancel. ![]() Quitting this application will really make you lose all your changes. A traditional Microsoft dialog would be like: ![]() If you have been using a Mac extensively, you would note that the majority of applications use this philosophy. Smultron - Shows Save/Don't Save over OK/Cancel ![]()
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