Don’t Do What I Want

I get tired of these dialogs. I see them as the point at which the development crew just gave up on me and their application.

Make a decision in your software! Be Bold! Be Brave! Don’t lay the impetus on me (the user) to understand certificates, SSL, file version incompatibilities, and other computer bull shit.

Sure the solutions to these dialogs are not always easy or obvious, but that’s where all the innovation lies. There are startups out there right now trying to glue together social solutions to these issues. GNOME is People! People are social! GNOME should have a solution here!

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Published:: 04.30.07 / 3pm

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Karl Lattimer May 1, 2007

Hmm, if it weren’t for the microsoft style blindly idiotic text… That could be the perfect GNOME desktop… One button “Do what I want”, the result in perfection of desktop design…

Fewer buttons which could confuse the end user, direct access to what you want to do… I mean its sheer genius
error27 May 1, 2007

I agree warning messages are stupid.

I had a boss who used to enable all the warning messages when he surfed the web. This was back in the day when he had to work to turn them on. I guess he read about it in a book or something. I was like, “Ha ha. U R dumb. ROFL. Paranoid freak.”
Bryan Clark › Informed choices and real security May 1, 2007

[...] informed choices in their Desktop interface. Well that’s not true, what’s missing my my previous post is that I don’t want to take away peoples ability to make informed choices, however I do want [...]

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My name is Bryan Clark, I’m a User Experience Designer working with Mozilla Messaging on Thunderbird; currently living in the Boston area. I have interests in design, economics, architecture, and beer. Previous to my work with Mozilla I was one of a select few Interaction Designers at Red Hat, working on their Desktop Team, OLPC, GNOME, Online Desktop and many other projects.

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