Linked by Mayuresh Walke on Thu 21st Apr 2005 08:01 UTC
What's the best way to: a. Improve usability in software applications? b. Review usability of existing software? c. Generate, encourage and review new ideas on software UI design? d. Make all this research work freely available to everyone (open source, proprietary, etc.)? e. Connect with all developer groups and individuals out there to share this work with them? Read more to find out.
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im starting to question about user interfaces is the concept of applications. in a properly done interface any "app" would register in the os what tasks its designed to perform and then it would interface with the os to create the gui. no need for seperate apps for every last task, in fact you could be able to access image manipulation abilitys inside a website for example so that you could alter the images of a website and then maybe have the system replace every use of the original image with the one you have alterd and stored.
and actions that you can perform on a item should be fully user defineable. there should be a inherent system where the list of gif actions should be a child of the image actions that again is the child of the file actions. any child should be able to override a action inherited from the parent.