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From: greid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: New to NeXT
Keywords: User Interface Revolution, Where's the Beef
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Date: 30 May 89 15:41:07 GMT
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In article <85@dbase.UUCP> awd@dbase.UUCP (Alastair Dallas) writes:
>As I say, I just got the three books, and I'm making my way through 
>Chapter Two.  Not to be rude, but it really must have been a lot of
>work for someone to rewrite the Apple User Interface Guidelines without
>using the _exact_ same words.  Where's the revolution?

Did you expect a revolution in the user interface guidelines?  People
haven't changed, you know.  If the Mac guidelines were so good (and I
think that they were, for the most part) then it is SENSIBLE not to
change them, don't you think?  The Mac UI guidlines basically encourage
you to be careful, consistent, and reasonable when designing an
interface, so that people will be able to pick it up intuitively.

Anyway, there are major steps forward in software.  The Interface
Builder, for example, keeps you from having to write any code to
support the interface.  You should really get a machine (or at least go
look at one somewhere).  The documentation doesn't do it justice.