Comments on: The need for a new metaphor http://nlapse.com/blog/the-need-for-a-new-metaphor/ Advanced User Experiences Blog Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:49:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: tukkah http://nlapse.com/blog/the-need-for-a-new-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-278 tukkah Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:23:57 +0000 http://nlapse.com/blog/?p=34#comment-278 No matter what others say, I think it is still interesting and useful maybe necessary to improve some minor things No matter what others say, I think it is still interesting and useful maybe necessary to improve some minor things

]]> By: Jose E. http://nlapse.com/blog/the-need-for-a-new-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Jose E. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:50:50 +0000 http://nlapse.com/blog/?p=34#comment-26 @Jamison You are right when you say: some applications do better than others. But really think the "desktop/application" metaphor is broken, cause when doing stuff, you have to break your flow and change it very often, not all applications have the same work-flow and that's is a little frustrating, at least for some people. The screenshots are only to make a "visual" point. @Jamison

You are right when you say: some applications do better than others.

But really think the “desktop/application” metaphor is broken, cause when doing stuff, you have to break your flow and change it very often, not all applications have the same work-flow and that’s is a little frustrating, at least for some people.

The screenshots are only to make a “visual” point.

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]]> By: Jamison Wieser http://nlapse.com/blog/the-need-for-a-new-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Jamison Wieser Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:26:47 +0000 http://nlapse.com/blog/?p=34#comment-21 Sure, there are plenty of dialog boxes which haven't kept up with the times, but why does that mean the entire desktop/application metaphor is broken? The window of an application is still a great way to organize everything related to a task in one place. Some applications do this better than others, and I think iPhoto is a successful example: it handles everything related to photos in a single window and obscures any kind of file management in favor of photo-specific sorting mechanisms (date, filmrolls, faces, locations, the latter being new metaphors that didn't exist in real-world photography) and plenty of print and share options within itself. The only time it breaks out of this is when sending photos by email, in which case it sends them over to the app specific to sending and receiving e-mail. Not all apps are as successful at managing all aspects of a task in one place. Those text and color dialogs, along with open, save as and many other dialogs occur when the developer turns over tasks to the operating system, but that alone isn't proof the desktop/application metaphor is broken. Sure, there are plenty of dialog boxes which haven’t kept up with the times, but why does that mean the entire desktop/application metaphor is broken?

The window of an application is still a great way to organize everything related to a task in one place. Some applications do this better than others, and I think iPhoto is a successful example: it handles everything related to photos in a single window and obscures any kind of file management in favor of photo-specific sorting mechanisms (date, filmrolls, faces, locations, the latter being new metaphors that didn’t exist in real-world photography) and plenty of print and share options within itself. The only time it breaks out of this is when sending photos by email, in which case it sends them over to the app specific to sending and receiving e-mail.

Not all apps are as successful at managing all aspects of a task in one place. Those text and color dialogs, along with open, save as and many other dialogs occur when the developer turns over tasks to the operating system, but that alone isn’t proof the desktop/application metaphor is broken.

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