[Design] Well, maybe

[hotto]

A major problem Microsoft overlooked in outlook is the spellchecker.
They use the same spell-check that is used for word. Outlook spell-check
should have a context for outlook. For example when you answer an email,
like I am doing now and then spell check it; spell-check gets hung up on the
prior email address brackets and address name.


Bob Hotto
-----Original Message-----
From: design-admin@osafoundation.org [mailto:design-admin@osafoundation.org]
On Behalf Of Bob Wyman
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 1:53 PM
To: 'Arthur Fink'; 'Steven Healey'; design@osafoundation.org
Subject: RE: [Design] Well, maybe

Arthur Fink wrote:
> Had Microsoft called it something neutral like 
> "control" we wouldn't be hearing so many complaints.
	You should take this as a very important lesson about the
software interface design buiness... You see, Microsoft puts a
tremendous amount of effort and time into user interface design. They
invest much more than virtually anyone else in the software business
does. They've got usability labs, hordes of usability experts, all sorts
of testing, focus groups, etc... Yet, people are still coming up with
the "obvious" things that they overlooked or failed to do. Most of the
time, the things they "didn't get right" aren't failures from lack of
effort... What you should appreciate here is that this stuff ain't easy
-- no matter how easy it may be for any of us to find something "broken"
once it has been released.

		bob wyman


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