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From: pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu ("Eric Pepke")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A call for "3D look" (a la Next) interface guidelines from Apple
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Date: 5 Feb 90 16:21:40 GMT
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What I don't want to see lost on the Mac is the feel of the interface.  
NeXT buttons look more like buttons, but Mac buttons feel a lot more like 
them.  When I click on a button, I don't want to wait a fifth of a second 
for the button to light up; I want it to light up NOW.  I don't know what 
the threshold is, but if the button lights up fast enough, it feels as if 
I were physically pushing the button.  If it doesn't light up fast enough, 
it feels as if I were tapping my finger on a pane of glass.  Most of the 
Mac interface does better than this threshold for me.  HyperCard, at least 
on a Plus or SE, and most of the NeXT interface do worse.

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