>Hi Craig,
>
>I am not talking about obvious samples of shame interface :)
>Things in a real world (not all of them of course - say, I am talking about
STOP buttons and flashing warning lights as a sample now) are coming from years (hundreds of years?) of human experience, they are not accidental and have deep psychological background. People are used to things like that for a reason. If they are like this in a real world, it does NOT mean that they
should be changed here on a computer as Microsoft wishes.
The psychological background is precisely why we should follow the guidelines. For example, the word "Error" has a definition psycological effect on people. The guidelines say whe should avoid the use of that word. Many people still have a fear of the computer. Things like "Error", flashing messages, and big red message should be avoided because of the psychological effects on the user.
>Using the extreme sample here:
>Imagine a fighter plane with the completely computerized instrument panel with touch screen displays. Should the button "Emergency Fuel Dump" be grey? And the "5 percent of fuel remaining" light/sign be NOT flashing right in your eyes?
>I am a pilot myself (well, I fly the glider for now :) and I wouldn't want Microsoft Windows with its's standards installed on it :)
But that's the standard for the plane...not a Windows application. There are published guidelines, things that MS has spent millions of dollars researching and publishing, for Windows. We should be following them.
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer