Re: OT: Good Resources?

Paul Robinson
2005-02-23T07:30:21Z

On 22 Feb 2005, at 17:58, John Johnson wrote:

> Drag the icon over to Applications and drop it. It''s installed.
Tired
> of it? Drag the icon from Applications to the Trash. It''s
uninstalled.

Actually, it''s more complicated than that. A lot of applications will
leave crap lying around in /Library and ~/Library. Try this for an
experiment: Install Adobe Reader, then uninstall it and try to view a
PDF from within Safari. OK, your point about Windows guys writing Mac
apps might apply here, but there are Mac guys writing similar rubbish.

I''m writing this on my 3-month old iBook despite being the author of
this:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2004-October/002684.html

I don''t buy the design aesthetics and ''thinking
differently'' that apple
users cliché themselves with. I think OS X has many stupid design flaws
- try using a Mac without a mouse/trackpad for more than 15 minutes
without the help of a load of third-party plugins and other apps.

I would suggest anybody needing to get a grip on design first needs to
understand heuristics != design != good understanding of colour !=
artistic flair != brand management

Learn all the above, and you''re done. Or concentrate on what
you''re
good at and get a designer to help you with what they''re good at.
Design is hard. Much, much, much harder than programming. We have Ruby,
they have nothing more than the same eyes we do.

--
Paul Robinson