Joel wrote:
I'm sure there's a whole team of UI designers, programmers, and testers
who worked very hard on the OFF button in Windows Vista, but seriously, is
this the best you could come up with?
Every time you want to leave your computer, you have to choose between
nine, count them, nine options: two icons and seven menu items.
...
This highlights a style of software design shared by Microsoft and the
open source movement, in both cases driven by a desire for consensus and
for "Making Everybody Happy," but it's based on the misconceived notion
that lots of choices make people happy, which we really need to rethink.
http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/21.html
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