[AccessD] User interface

Charlotte Foust charlotte.foust at gmail.com
Sun Sep 4 13:29:14 CDT 2011


I have to say that I agree about Google's interfaces.  I always use the
simplest one they offer, but I don't really like any of them.  That said,
I'm not thrilled with the live.com either, although it's far easier to
retrieve other email accounts from it than from Google.

Charlotte Foust

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:

> Hi Arthur and Jim
>
> Really? I find GMail to represent an horror example of bad (or lacking)
> design - with a mess of colours, buttons and pop-ups everywhere, yellow and
> green bars, boring fonts. No style.
> Contrary to this, the redesigned live.com
>
> (hotmail etc.) is a good example on how very similar pages can appear much
> lighter and neater by use of a simple tricks like careful colouring and
> shading, stylish fonts, and just a few frames (with right-angled corners;
> round corners should be forbidden by law!).
>
> Currently Microsoft is way ahead of anyone else regarding design with
> Windows Phone 7 and now Windows 8 as the stellar examples of the Metro
> project. Even the ribbon has proved right for me as I'm now able to use
> PowerPoint which I previously stayed off. Now it is even fun! That tells it
> all.
>
> The interesting and encouraging part is, that this is the result of hard
> work by several teams of very skilled and brave persons, not just some fancy
> ideas. They are being bashed from many sides which - could one believe -
> want Windows 3.11 and Word 2.0 back. MS management deserves credit for
> having promoted design to have top priority.
>
> /gustav
>
>
> >>> fuller.artful at gmail.com 02-09-2011 21:28:01 >>>
> I think of Google as the UI par excellence. Lean and clean and decidedly
> not noisy. I admire their design sense immensely.
>
> A.
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