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Windows 8 Designer Explains Why It Annoys You

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the you-had-one-job-ONE-JOB dept.
stmuk writes:

"BGR reflects on recent comments by a Metro designer. 'Metro is a content consumption space,' Microsoft UX designer Jacob Miller explains, 'It is designed for casual users who only want to check Facebook, view some photos, and maybe post a selfie to Instagram. It's designed for your computer illiterate little sister, for grandpas who don't know how to use that computer dofangle thingy, and for mom who just wants to look up apple pie recipes. It's simple, clear, and does one thing (and only one thing) relatively easily. That is what Metro is. It is the antithesis of a power user.'"

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Jaruzel on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:04PM

    by Jaruzel (812) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @08:04PM (#2790) Homepage Journal

    Tsk. You N00bs. :)

    Bottom left corner, right click. A surprisingly useful menu appears full of lots of goodies. On it choose 'Shutdown or sign out >'.

    Right clicking on a corner with no visual indicator that there's something there must be REALLY obvious in MS land, or something... *mind boggles*

    -Jar

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    This is my opinion, there are many others, but this one is mine.

  • (Score: 1) by Hyper on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:12PM

    by Hyper (1525) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:12PM (#2866) Journal

    Bottom left corner? Right click? D'uh! How could I possibly have missed that?

    Obviously my years in IT have been a complete waste. I should start again in a new field, wookworking perhaps :p

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 19 2014, @11:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 19 2014, @11:40PM (#2977)

    Of course, for that to be possible you need to be using a mouse rather than a touchscreen. So much for that unified interface...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2014, @02:48AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2014, @02:48AM (#3091)

      Upgrade tablets to have mouse cursor and virtual right click button pad

      If SCUMM can do it then google can!