A certain amount of syncronicity this evening. Someone on Twitter randomly pointed out this rather interesting article on realism in UI design...
http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2010/01/21...ui_design/
...which I only noticed to read after an evening wrestling with a few aspects of the Sonar interface. Powerful product but damn, Cakewalk's interface team need to be taken out and shot. Ultimately the fix for what I was working on doesn't seem to be documented anywhere and seems to me to be non-intuitive to work out, the fix itself throwing up more inadequacies of the design.
http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2010/01/21...ui_design/
...which I only noticed to read after an evening wrestling with a few aspects of the Sonar interface. Powerful product but damn, Cakewalk's interface team need to be taken out and shot. Ultimately the fix for what I was working on doesn't seem to be documented anywhere and seems to me to be non-intuitive to work out, the fix itself throwing up more inadequacies of the design.