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From: strasser@eniac.seas.upenn.edu ( Colin J. Strasser.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Requester improvement
Summary: LOTS of improvement...
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Date: 23 Oct 89 20:36:35 GMT
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Both of the ideas passing through here (smarter & better looking requestors)
are both excellent.  I remember booting up my first Amiga and thinking, "Hey,
these graphics are awesome -- why didn't Commodore use them in its window
environment?"

The NeXT, for instance, addresses both these issues in a neat way.  It has 
"3-d" looking window borders, buttons, menus, and icons (and decent looking
ARROWS!), which convey a sense of security to the user -- he feels that 
the company took time to do things right and finish the details.  In addition,
most of the programs I ran had a "Help" menu item, with subitems like "What
is..." and "Why the beep?" which offered intuitive answers to most questions
a new user might have.

Something like that as a standard (or at least decent usage of the darn HELP
key!) would go a long way to building confidence in new Amiga users, confi-
dence both in their ability to use the machine and also in the machine itself.

					-Colin



Colin Strasser				University of Pennsylvania
strasser@eniac.seas.upenn.edu		Moore School of Electrical Engineering
CI$: 72447,1650				Class of '90 -- Penn's 250th year!