RE: Column View

[George Farris <george gmsys com>]

The column view has been around for years and years.  It came from
NeXTStep and OpenStep.

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 11:29, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> Tristan O'Tierney wrote:
> > My interets lie strongly in interface design and
> > usability. I can show why it would be a worthwhile
> > cause to implement such a feature.
> > 
> > First, take a look at these two screenshots:
> > http://www.otierney.net/images/columnview/tree.png
> > http://www.otierney.net/images/columnview/column.png
> 
> Personally, the column view confused me greatly when I saw it in the MacOS X
> file selection dialog. (I don't think it was in the regular finder in the
> verions (10.1 maybe) of MacOS X that I used, or I didn't know how to
> activate it). I think part of my confusion was that I didn't see the
> horizontal scroll bar at first, so I had no clue what was going on.
> 
> I'd love to hear about some user studies. If Apple did them then I hope
> there is some information about them out there. Personally, I don't believe
> that Apple do user studies anymore, or they don't do them like they used to.
> 
> Even if it's useful, I'm sceptical that it is useful enough to justify the
> complication of yet another mode of Nautilus operation.
> 
> Murray Cumming
> www.murrayc.com
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George Farris <george gmsys com>