Yes, No, Cancel Sun Aug 23 15:06:10 2009
I made one of the oldest mistakes in the book today; assuming that there is a big book of mistakes somewhere. When using Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) software I tried to merge a layer down with ctrl+E, and hit ctrl+W instead. I was presented with this dialog:
The problem is that my first thought was "NO! NO NO NO! I don't want to do that!". So I clicked 'No'. Duuuuuuh.
It wasn't anything important I was working on, so I just left it and went to get a sandwich.
While what I did was a stupid mistake, it did help me realise that even the parts of interfaces that we take for granted as 'fine' have room for improvement. It also made me realise how tasty peanut butter and Rocky Caramel sandwiches are. And finally, from following the link to Fox's Biscuits, I was reminded how annoying Flash-based websites are when you want to link to a specific part of them. ANYWAY...
I'm sure I'm not the first to make such a suggestion, but I think something like this would cause less headaches:
Would that be so hard? I know it's lazy to not want to read the whole message, but laziness is in our nature.
For the record, I'm not picking on Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) software specifically. Many, if not most, applications have the same problem. It just so happened that I was using Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) software at the time.
The problem is that my first thought was "NO! NO NO NO! I don't want to do that!". So I clicked 'No'. Duuuuuuh.
It wasn't anything important I was working on, so I just left it and went to get a sandwich.
While what I did was a stupid mistake, it did help me realise that even the parts of interfaces that we take for granted as 'fine' have room for improvement. It also made me realise how tasty peanut butter and Rocky Caramel sandwiches are. And finally, from following the link to Fox's Biscuits, I was reminded how annoying Flash-based websites are when you want to link to a specific part of them. ANYWAY...
I'm sure I'm not the first to make such a suggestion, but I think something like this would cause less headaches:
Would that be so hard? I know it's lazy to not want to read the whole message, but laziness is in our nature.
For the record, I'm not picking on Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) software specifically. Many, if not most, applications have the same problem. It just so happened that I was using Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) software at the time.
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