Comments on: Microsoft Live – Designed by Fisher Price

By: How I Connect To People Online | Graham Wegner - Open Educator

How I Connect To People Online | Graham Wegner - Open Educator — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:41:20 +0000

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By: Mike Evangelist

Mike Evangelist — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It reminds me of the time I was helping a friend set up a new Windows laptop they had just bought (I think it was a Dell, but I'm not positive). When we got the thing fired up, and finally got to the desktop, there were two entire columns of icons down the left side of the screen. This was all the 'standard' stuff installed on the machine. Somehow, somebody thought that would be useful.

By: D'Arcy

D'Arcy — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

That’s the problem – each icon probably _was_ useful to a small audience. But nobody had the balls to say “hey – the overall experience is just as important, if not moreso, than each individual need” – there is no Steven P. in the Windows world.

By: Stephen Downes

Stephen Downes — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Interesting that ‘learn’ and ‘buy’ are just two steps apart in Microsoft’s version of the great wheel of life…

By: D'Arcy

D'Arcy — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s all about consumerism… Nothing worth doing is worth doing without buying something first.

By: gillian

gillian — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I mean – can they fit any more information into the slide?

No, they can’t. But they could’ve made it blink, or have the arrow-wheel spin on its axis. That would’ve been trippy.

By: D'Arcy

D'Arcy — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ooh! A spinning arrow wheel, with volumetric glowing, and perhaps colour cycling! THAT would get the point across so much better!

By: Rob Wall

Rob Wall — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think the pic from the Steve-note says it all. There’s a couple of remotes with a button for every possible function, and then there’s the Apple remote which has a simple user interface that does everything. That pretty much sums up the difference between the Windows and Apple approaches to user interface design.

Of course, there’s always the Linux approach to UI, so what would a Linux remote control look like. Well, before you could use it you’d have to unzip the tarball, then run “make” and “make install” for each function you would want on the remote.

By: MHC-in-the-box » The Presentation Zen blog

MHC-in-the-box » The Presentation Zen blog — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

[…] Here is are two other blog entries that compare the two companies and their approach to product presentation, Microsoft Live – Designed by Fisher Price and How to present Microsoft-style: Steve Jobs, you’ve got nothing to worry about. […]

[…] Au-delÃ du giron des amateurs de Microsoft, ce n’est guÃ¨re le produit Windows Live qui a attirÃ© l’attention, mais plutÃ´t la prÃ©sentation maladroite effectuÃ©e par la compagnie. D’Arcy Norman a qualifiÃ© cette prÃ©sentation de Fisher Price, car ses couleurs et ses formes rappellent les jouets produits par cette compagnie. Garr Reynolds fait une analyse comparÃ©e trÃ¨s intÃ©ressante des prÃ©sentations de Steve Jobs (Apple) et celle de Bill Gates (Microsoft). Et celle de Steve Jobs gagne largementÂ : le contenu est prÃ©sentÃ© clairement et efficacement. Celle de Bill Gates n’est qu’un fouillis incomprÃ©hensible. Ã‰tait-ce vouluÂ ? Ne lit-il pas les ouvrages publiÃ©s par sa maison d’Ã©ditionÂ ? […]

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