Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 10th May 2008 21:49 UTC, submitted by Thorsten Wilms
As you may remember from our series on common usability terms, I have a lot of interest in graphical user interface concepts. In addition, I applaud anyone trying to improve existing concepts, people that try to think beyond set conventions to come up with an improved version of that concept, or a new concept altogether. Thorsten Wilms took on the well-established concept of the scrollbar, and came up with a few interesting tweaks.
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The concept isn't horrible, and I'm not sure you would be "relearning" anything -- the functionality he's replacing is almost never used as it is. I think the idea is kind of "blah" but I'm glad he's thinking of UI anyway.
I really don't want to sound like a Mac snob (I'm really not that big of a fan! I swear!), but I have to say I love the Mac Book Pro's multi-touch. I almost never use a scroll bar because of the combination of the up/down arrows on a keyboard and being able to scroll horizontally and vertically by simply using two fingers instead of one.
When I eventually have to replace my MBP and get something cheap that runs Linux, I will really miss this functionality (and I guess I kind of like the keyboard as well).