Brad's Isys mirror
based from <a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=10&t=003441"; target="_blank">this</a> thread, here is Brad's post:
[quote]Originally posted by Brad:
<strong>CRIKEY. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" /> That is the first and LAST time I try to pull and recode a whole website from the Wayback Machine. What a pain!!
I got everything important minus only two or three images. I rewrote the links so they should all point to the proper files on my iDisk. The only pages I didn't pull are the Announcments page, Feedback page, and IIA's own software development page.
The material on these pages is very informative and hilarious at times. There are even a few Mac examples scattered about too. The in-depth look at QuickTime 4 gives me shivers. I HATED the QuickTime 4 Player's interface. There are some things that have carried over to even the current player that are terrible. Maybe I should write an article about it...
Anyhow, enjoy!
Brad's <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/bradster/iarchitect/index.html"; target="_blank">Isys Information Architects</a> Mirror.
Oh, and by the way, this thread belong in General Discussion. Moving now...
[ 12-27-2002: Message edited by: Brad ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
some good stuff in there..
thanks brad!
I especially liked (so far) The EMERAC Metaphor
<a href="http://homepage.mac.com/bradster/iarchitect/metaphor.htm"; target="_blank">here</a>
[quote] In evaluating interfaces, we now use the term The EMERAC Metaphor to refer to useless features that only serve to distract the user from the particular task at hand. As is amply demonstrated in the images above, Microsoft has made the EMERAC metaphor a central design theme in their applications. Such features provide absolutely no benefit for the user, and are only used to make the program look different, and perhaps, as a means of showing off one's programming abilities. <hr></blockquote>
remind anyone of Mac OS X?!
:eek: <img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[Surprised]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
funny stuff
[ 12-27-2002: Message edited by: Paul ]</p>
[quote]Originally posted by Brad:
<strong>CRIKEY. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" /> That is the first and LAST time I try to pull and recode a whole website from the Wayback Machine. What a pain!!
I got everything important minus only two or three images. I rewrote the links so they should all point to the proper files on my iDisk. The only pages I didn't pull are the Announcments page, Feedback page, and IIA's own software development page.
The material on these pages is very informative and hilarious at times. There are even a few Mac examples scattered about too. The in-depth look at QuickTime 4 gives me shivers. I HATED the QuickTime 4 Player's interface. There are some things that have carried over to even the current player that are terrible. Maybe I should write an article about it...
Anyhow, enjoy!
Brad's <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/bradster/iarchitect/index.html"; target="_blank">Isys Information Architects</a> Mirror.
Oh, and by the way, this thread belong in General Discussion. Moving now...
[ 12-27-2002: Message edited by: Brad ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
some good stuff in there..
thanks brad!
I especially liked (so far) The EMERAC Metaphor
<a href="http://homepage.mac.com/bradster/iarchitect/metaphor.htm"; target="_blank">here</a>
[quote] In evaluating interfaces, we now use the term The EMERAC Metaphor to refer to useless features that only serve to distract the user from the particular task at hand. As is amply demonstrated in the images above, Microsoft has made the EMERAC metaphor a central design theme in their applications. Such features provide absolutely no benefit for the user, and are only used to make the program look different, and perhaps, as a means of showing off one's programming abilities. <hr></blockquote>
remind anyone of Mac OS X?!
:eek: <img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[Surprised]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> funny stuff
[ 12-27-2002: Message edited by: Paul ]</p>
Comments
Sadly, the problematic UIs shown in those pages plague just as many Windows programs today as they did a few years ago when that site was written. Some of the specific apps that are listed there still haven't changed their ugly ways after all these years.
I have found in recent years that one of the benefits to being a Mac user is that we are surrounded by graphic professionals and people who actually care about how software interacts with the user. If you frequent VersionTracker, you'll see that apps with bad UI design regularly get slammed and rated down poorly even if they provide a good function. A lot of RealBasic apps, for example, get corralled together as "bad" apps because the amateur programmers have trouble designing a good interface. This criticism is a Good Thing?, though, because it means that Mac users demand a higher quality of software than your average Windrone. It puts our platform above the rest and can really impress those would-be switchers.
By the way, to anyone who has disabled image animation in their browser, you should re-enable it to view these pages. As in Paul's example, several images are animated to show a procedure or movement.