关于微软的Metro UI

今天终于找到了能够总结我对Metro UI的观点的评论:

1. “regarding Windows Phone ’07, Apple offers “a better-designed UI that doesn’t continuously destroy users’ visual memory.”

2. The sameness made it impossible to find anything. Why anyone would revert to vague and homogeneous tiles from highly identifiable icons is beyond my comprehension. Perhaps someone thinks it’s more artsy.”

3. “People sense something is wrong. The miserable sales of the Phone 7 products reflect the user sensitivity,” Dvorak writes. “So what does Microsoft do? It pushes the same bad idea to the new OS. Win 8 will be a huge disappointment if Microsoft insists that these metro tiles are a good idea.”

“When you look at your desktop screen, how do you find the program you are looking for? You look for distinctive icons using your human ability to recognize patterns. It’s what we do best,” Dvorak writes. “We are so good at this that we can identify an upside down icon. Mac takes the icon approach to interesting and useful extremes. Even document icons are miniature and identifiable shrunken images of the title page. This is extremely useful.”

真的我之前就是这样想的。
信息overload,不仅overload时间长了之后用户会自动忽略tiles里的信息,而且也毁灭了用户视觉记忆。

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