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Interface Hall of Shame. Material Sources: www.baddesigns.com www.iarchitect.com/shame.htm. Internet Explorer Cache. Minimum cache size of 1% regardless of current or future drive sizes. No technical constraint. Horizontal Scrolling.
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Interface Hall of Shame Material Sources:www.baddesigns.comwww.iarchitect.com/shame.htm
Internet Explorer Cache • Minimum cache size of 1% regardless of current or future drive sizes. • No technical constraint
Horizontal Scrolling • Humans can scan written material faster from top to bottom rather than left to right. • Vertical lists support single-item scrolling • Internet Explorer 4.0 certificate authority selection panel uses horizontal scrolling.
Two Item List Box • VB 5.0 uses a two item list box. • A drop down list or radio buttons would be much better. • Similarly, a 1000-item list box is bad.
Multi-Row Property Sheets • Single-row property sheets (tab controls) are among the best user interface elements ever devised. • Multi-row tab controls are perhaps one of the worst interface elements ever! • Clicking one of the tabs other than from the bottom row, causes a major reorganisation of the complete set of tabs.
Silly Error Messages • Message presented whilst trying to delete files from a nearly-full hard drive in Windows 95.
Metaphor Limits • As a means of deleting files and documents, the Macintosh trashcan is a perfectly intuitive metaphor. • Unfortunately, the designers decided to extend the trashcan metaphor to include the completely counterintuitive function of ejecting diskettes