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From: isle@dartvax.UUCP (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Poor Mac Design Philosophy (was blinking apple)
Message-ID: <7342@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 21:05:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: dartvax.7342
Posted: Fri Oct  9 21:05:15 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Oct-87 03:07:24 EDT
References: <1076@houtz.UUCP> <21205@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <400@sdics.ucsd.EDU>
Reply-To: isle@dartvax.UUCP (Ken Hancock)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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Keywords: Mac design blinking apple

In article <400@sdics.ucsd.EDU> norman@sdics.UUCP (Donald A. Norman) writes:
>Others patiently explain that this means the alarm clock is ringing:
>find it and shut it off.  Everyone feels stupid (but they shouldn't --
>it is a sign of poor design).
>
>This is yet another example of how Macintosh design fails to follow
>its own guidelines.  How should anyone ever know this is an alarm? Yes
>it is in the manual, but buried. And manuals are unread.

Good grief...what do you want it to do?  If people don't want to read
manuals, fine...but then don't complain every time you find something
that you don't know right off the back.  Sheez...I can just see the
dialog boxes.

      __________________________________________________
      |  Excuse me, Mr. User...your alarm clock is on. |
      |________________________________________________|

And then of course the users would complain that the System file
is 500K.... Just goes to show you can't win.

Ken

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