Post Archive
› April 23, 2002
Aqua Under Inspection
You may already know that I’m a wanna be mac head, but I strongly believe in scouring information from those who hold opposing viewpoints. These links are regarding the aqua interface in particular:
The Cranky User: Drowning in Aqua (via tremendo)
Top 10 Reasons the Apple Dock Sucks (why the heck is a professional like TOG referencing a graphic right off of the apple servers? that's not cool! Apple seems to have wisely removed the graphic)
Reader responses to Tog's article (favorite quote: “I just read your article about why the Dock sucks. I agree with most of your points. And none of them matter.”)
Eloquently titled article Mac OSX Still Sucks
A set of suggestions based on initial release of aqua, and proof that apple takes customer feedback seriously.
The Interface Mafia’s Redesigning the OS X Dock
And there is so much more, feel free to add your favorites in comments. I should also probably note that the links above are not very timely, and I don’t yet have the pleasure of owning a mac with osx (one day i hope!).
AndyEd Posted…
While the dock certainly has it’s problems, there’s a nugget of true interaction genius in there. The expansion of targets as the mouse gets near them has been empirically proven to boost mouse movement times very significantly, shaving up to .5sec off a 2 second mouse move with the expansion occurring as far as 75% into a 600px’ish mouse move. The url above offers more info.