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- From: worden@ut-emx.uucp (Sue J. Worden)
- Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
- Subject: 3D-effect Buttons
- Message-ID: <76356@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 13:36:24 GMT
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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- > Article: 2266 of comp.cog-eng
- > From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew)
- > [ ... ] People continue to buy products which are overloaded with
- > unnecessary features, plastered with stupid 3D-effect bevelled edges and
- > [ ... ] "Hey, hang on a minute, all these grey 3D-effect
- > buttons are very pretty, but they're all confusingly different and don't
- > really gain me anything useful anyway." [ ... ]
-
- I'm not a PC person and I'm not familiar with Windows.
- Perhaps Microsoft has managed to really screw up their
- user interface by poorly managing their screen space
- and feature selection dynamics. I don't know about
- that. But what I do know is that in other packages
- I've used, I've found the 3D-effect bevelling to be
- both visually and functionally pleasing.
-
- :Sue Worden (worden@emx.cc.utexas.edu)
-