Plus, I seem to be a fan of long interviews and reviews lately.Įver since the Pony Express, people have loved special deliveries.
I had to stop the clerk at Border’s the other day to let me take a closer look at their internal book lookup application — it had some of the best/worst icons I’ve ever seen, like an “Add New†button that was a small crane lifting a shipping container and an even-worse rendition of the always-terrible “Filter†icon that involved a tiny coffee maker.) (And as a general warning, once you tune your brain to the UI channel, you become hopeless.
I can barely even use Vista without wanting to wrap it up, glaze it with a delicious marinade, cook it in an oven, garnish it with a sprig of mint, and toss it out the god-forsaken window. Every window, every dialog, every workflow, my brain trips up on 1 or 5 or 15 things that are hard to comprehend. When I try to use Windows, this internal alarm is literally constantly firing.
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Probably like many of your readers, when I use software or applications, my brain can’t help but subconsciously notice an infinite stream of little things that are weird or out of place or questionably designed that I want to fix. It’s almost impossible to feel passion about Windows as a platform. The innovation, the elegance, the lack of focus testing, the general feeling that people care about the end product, it makes us want to keep doing what we do.
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MacThemes: I’ve long believed Panic applications prove the theory that Mac applications are better-designed (from a UI perspective) than Windows apps what drives you to develop for the Mac only?Ĭabel: It’s not even something we question or think about — it was just a no brainer. For something fun, try arranging your entire icon library in different ways and sit back and watch the show. Doing an “Arrange by…†and watching how the collection animates is neat too. It’s like watching a cheap version of those CGI “morphsâ€.
I find myself just mousing around inside the program to see one icon fade into the other. The Core Animation cross-fade never gets old. Ged: Simply switching from one collection to another. MacThemes: Additionally, what’s your favorite new bit of “eye candy†? It’s a combination review of CandyBar and interview with Cabel Sasser from Panic and Gadeon Maheux from Icon Factory: A great article today from Austin and Luis at MacTHEME: “ The World of Candybar“.
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