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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
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Date: 23 Jun 91 18:40:33 GMT
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Quoted from <1991Jun23.044133.23463@neon.Stanford.EDU> by torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie):
> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:

> >    Workbench already has a drag and drop like operation, for copying

>   Does the disk icon auto-highlight?

    Not that I remember.

> >    the position of the mouse pointer to judge, then you don't need to
> >    autoselect at all - just use the mouse pointer in the first place...
> 
>   This cuts against the one of the core tenets of human interface design -
> namely "VISUAL FEEDBACK".  A good user interface will always try and
> provide immediate visual feedback to indicate the result of completing 

    I think it's a little more complex than that. Perhaps "a good user
    interface will always try and provide immediate visual feedback to
    indicate the result of completing the action, except when doing so
    will result in visual 'noise'".

    This is probably a matter of opinion. I had a discussion a while back
    with a guy who writes user interface stuff for touch screen
    applications, and apparently a long standing divider in the company
    he works for is the direction scrolling lists should move in
    when the user presses a cursor key.

    These things are small and insignificant. Note that menus are not
    generally a cluttered visual space, but a Workbench where the icons
    are jammed closely enough together to be a problem is obviously
    quite cluttered.

> Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?       torrie@cs.stanford.edu   
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