>>Hi Craig,
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>>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.
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>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.
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>>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 :)
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>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.

I agree that be SHOULD, but not MUST... :)