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i wish instead of previous and next when mail is sorted chronologically they would use older and newer. bah.
using squirelmail-- i could write an insulting sonnet about squirelmail.
He he. A perennial problem, Christina. Much as I loathe Outlook I do think its up arrow and down arrow are a really simple and effective way of showing the relationship between messages. (One for Widgetopia perhaps, if it's not already there?) But don’t get me started on separating incoming messages from the replies you send ... (grrr)
I notice bumps like this in ALL web apps I us eor evaluate. Recently, I've been looking for some srot of online project management, but they all display glaring design and IA problems.
It's almost as if the programmers never use them. Even scarier is that they do use them, and they think everything is fine. Reminds me of Cooper's bit on mental models...
Maybe it's time ID and IA joined the open source movement.
My dad does not like the today and yesterday for e-mail dates he wants the real dates for everything. Me I am lost with real dates and I need Today and Yesterday to form some sort of frame of reference.
Austin, there used to be some great web-based project management apps, but for most they were either bought by Content Management Systems that charge hectillion dollars or the CMS went out of business or the company with the app did not get bought and went out of business. It is back to the old days of rolling our own.
I have a friend who does user research for a living and tried to join the open-source movement. they didn't want him. they said the point of open source was finally getting to just code without business or user constraints slowing them down.
"...the point of open source was finally getting to just code without business or user constraints slowing them down."
That is the most obnoxious, immature, and ignorant thing I've ever heard lately. And I've been listening to the election coverage.
And since I'm bitching, next on my list are graphic designers who don't read *any* of what they design and graphic artists that justify every art decision with "it's mine."
Maybe AIfIA should start a new initiative where they adopt an open source project and retool the interface. Maybe we could do one a year. That would put IA on the map for all those constrained and oppressed coders in the world.
BLARGH!
How many among you have noticed the "new" hotmail previous and next email arrows?
For christina's joy: an _upward_ and a _downward_ arrow. Guess how long it takes for the new user of the "new" improved hotmail to guess where the next and previous links are?
2 days.