thank you chaos86 for answering my criticisms of OS X UI.
I apologize for being diminutive. I do think the user experience design team has done an outstanding job and it is one of the reasons I switched over two years ago from windows. I do still however have those five criticisms and think they are the reason why more people don't make the switch.
David Pogue's talk was about the importance of user interface design in the design of a product. He referred to tap counting to illustrate that point. A long time ago the manufacturer of a widely popular personal assistant device did actually employee a tap counter to improve their UI. So tap counting is a phrase to describe the efforts to evaluate the efficiency, ease of use, friendliness, etc. of a UI. Mr Pogue, I think, subtly implied that Apple has done a better job of designing the user interface. Which I agree with and hope they continue to do a better job.
Thanks again
I assume you mean the preview window you get by hitting space with a file selected. In that case, up and down arrow keys can still be used to change which file is selected. That's what I do when I want to look through a folder of images quickly. I am using column view, but I imagine it works the same with detail view, switches to left and right for coverflow view, and becomes a pretty annoying up/down/left/right grid navigation in icon grid view.
So all one has to do is hit the space bar then they'll have the ability to advance forward and back ward thru the pictures with arrow keys, I like it. I tried it and it works.
But now, why shouldn't that work when the 1st picture was selected with the mouse tap too. One has to remember to select it with the space bar.
Now .. you know the potential apple convert will not know to hit the space bar instead of tapping on it with the mouse.
Just copy and paste?
Yes, one could do that. But one has to remember to do the "cut and paste" before transitioning to the new folder, each and every time, It is so ingrained in ex windows users that it is hard to remember from one week to the next to do copy and paste before switching directories.
And it gets worse: so here you are looking for some file that you could barely remember what the file might have been called and one spends some minutes looking through the list of found potentials and decides, Aw heck, I was searching in the wrong directory. Then one has to recreate that search criteria as well as retype it.
It is an extra step the user does not need.
I apologize for being diminutive. I do think the user experience design team has done an outstanding job and it is one of the reasons I switched over two years ago from windows. I do still however have those five criticisms and think they are the reason why more people don't make the switch.
David Pogue's talk was about the importance of user interface design in the design of a product. He referred to tap counting to illustrate that point. A long time ago the manufacturer of a widely popular personal assistant device did actually employee a tap counter to improve their UI. So tap counting is a phrase to describe the efforts to evaluate the efficiency, ease of use, friendliness, etc. of a UI. Mr Pogue, I think, subtly implied that Apple has done a better job of designing the user interface. Which I agree with and hope they continue to do a better job.
Thanks again
I assume you mean the preview window you get by hitting space with a file selected. In that case, up and down arrow keys can still be used to change which file is selected. That's what I do when I want to look through a folder of images quickly. I am using column view, but I imagine it works the same with detail view, switches to left and right for coverflow view, and becomes a pretty annoying up/down/left/right grid navigation in icon grid view.
So all one has to do is hit the space bar then they'll have the ability to advance forward and back ward thru the pictures with arrow keys, I like it. I tried it and it works.
But now, why shouldn't that work when the 1st picture was selected with the mouse tap too. One has to remember to select it with the space bar.
Now .. you know the potential apple convert will not know to hit the space bar instead of tapping on it with the mouse.
Admittedly I don't do that much searching in finder, but can't you just copy and paste the search term? CMD+A (select all), CMD+C (copy), change folder, CMD+F (go to find mode), CMD+V (paste).
Just copy and paste?
Yes, one could do that. But one has to remember to do the "cut and paste" before transitioning to the new folder, each and every time, It is so ingrained in ex windows users that it is hard to remember from one week to the next to do copy and paste before switching directories.
And it gets worse: so here you are looking for some file that you could barely remember what the file might have been called and one spends some minutes looking through the list of found potentials and decides, Aw heck, I was searching in the wrong directory. Then one has to recreate that search criteria as well as retype it.
It is an extra step the user does not need.
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