1/17/2024 0 Comments Menuwhere for apple instal![]() Wmoss: There are all sorts of Fitts law studies that support centering for speed of user access.ĭo you have links that you can point me to? Because from my (limited) knowledge of Fitt's law, I would think that to opposite is true. Personally I like the left leaning menubar, but if we could find whatever magical justification it was that made Apple concede on this issue it might make things easier to justify to Apple when they decide to do something "aesthetic but silly" in the future. purveyors of the round mouse, little blue menubar decoration, and other form over function atrocities it just seems like an odd concession to keeping things ugly but functional. ![]() There are all sorts of Fitts law studies that support centering for speed of user access.īut even beyond any logical reason we are talking about Apple here. ![]() It makes sense that one wouldn't want to be dependent on a particular side of the screen especially in the large Asian markets where there is a more natural tendency to look at the right side first rather than the left. Drawers allow a dialog to look centered except in those cases where you simply must have something popping out of a side. In Apple's designs you'll notice that besides the dock, the light sources for drop shadows is clearly coming from a top center source rather than a top left source. The Mac OS X user interface design guidelines specifically tell programmers to re-do all of their old "strongly top-left layouts" to be centered. I'm not saying that a centered menu bar would be "useful" but it would be more aesthetically conforming. It might be that Apple did interface testing with new users and found the left aligned menubar to work better, but if that was the case I'm suprised that they haven't removed the Apple in the center of the menubar But since the name of the app, pushes File and Edit around that's not the case for the left aligned menubar either. With different lengths of menubars, finding the consistent menus (like file and edit) won't be in the same place for every app. I'm accustomed to just slamming my mouse to the upper left corner to get to the Apple menu, but if the System wide apple menu isn't there any more, that tendency will go away anyway. So why didn't Apple center the menubar? At first I thought that it would be harder to use. If the elevator is idle, you'd want it to go to the 10 floor so that it'd be quicker to respond to the next user no matter what floor they are on. Imagine an elevator in a 20 story building. It also makes things faster to manipulate from a user interface perspective (Fitt's law I think is the codification of this). ![]() Control panel interfaces look very centered.Ī centered interface isn't biased against a culture that doesn't have a custom of left-to-right reading (such as Japan or China). The drop shadows that the windows and menu cast are made such that it looks like the light source is coming from directly overhead rather than the upper left. The Apple menubar adornment (no matter how nonfunctional) stays centered onscreen. If you read Apple's interface guidelines for Mac OS X, one of the things that is repeated over and over is that they want interface design to be centered on screen instead of the strong, left-aligned nature of the Classic Mac OS.Īpple itself does a reasonably good job of sticking to this design guideline.
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