I recently changed my office suite as I swapped over to the Treo 600. The new office suite has a funky spellcheck – funky until you try to get suggestions:
Most people(including me) assume that one can click into rectangles to execute the action contained within. But not so in this example – you need to click onto the words…
Once a user has understood and accepted a pattern, unlearning it is very hard. Forcing your user to unlearn makes the UI less usable – if there is no real speed benefit, it usually isn’t worth it!
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And therein lies the Zen of Palm, almost unfathomable today but still on the edge of memory.
Hi,
too bad the days of “tap counting” and “context sensitive disclosure” are gone nowadays…
Best regards
Tam Hanna