The State of the Art in User Interfaces
Mon 7 Jun 2010 16:17 NZST
This is a dialog that popped up just now from iTunes:
It has several noteworthy interactive features:
- It is not resizable.
- The two choices are visually identical.
- Copy-and-paste is disabled for the text of interest.
It also possesses a few less visible but no less interesting attributes:
- There is no undo once I click OK.
- iTunes remembers my choice1 for future insertions of the same CD.
I shall choose at random.
Moral: Current environments for interacting with computers are, putting it mildly, irretrievably broken. Our only hope lies in disruptive innovation.
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Fortunately, there is a method for causing iTunes to forget my choice and ask me the same question again: it is the selection
Get Track Names
in theAdvanced
menu. ↩