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Leopard Fake Screenshot Contest Winners Announced
Austin Sarner writes "Phill Ryu's Fake Leopard Screenshot contest which has been attracting a quite a bit of buzz has just ended and the winners have been announced! While there is a bunch of expected stuff in these screenshots, the entrants did not hold back when it came to trying out crazy stuff — and surprisingly, a good amount of them work great. Ranging from new window styles to a complete rethink of a window based work environment, these are sure to make any UI geek excited. The winners received over $1,000 each in prizes, and were obviously motivated to put out some great stuff. The judges included Wil Shipley, the creator of Delicious Library, David Watanabe, who makes NewsFire and Acquisition, as well as numerous other smaller devs."
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I've seen a lot of these ideas before. I remember them from all the Gnome3 and KDE4 mockups floating around. These fake shots do look nice though.
Hi, it's my blog that's getting owned right now. That dugg mirror does mirror the winning entry, but does not mirror the entire article with comments + the 2 other winners and 3 runners up. I'm trying to get this fixed but to see the whole thing you guys might have to wait until this cools down a bit... if that'll ever happen. DREEEAMHOOOOOSSST!!!!! ARGH!
who thinks that finder looks completely unusable? IANAIDBT (I am not an interface designer by trade), but this really puts the the stupid in Keep It Simple, Stupid. You have to remember that Apple especially would probably like to keep their file browser grandma friendly. I'm sure I could find ways to put something like this to good use eventually, but my first impression was "holy fuck, thats cluttered".
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That only has the first place winner... if you want to see the story as well as the other winners and runners up....
Main Page: Coral cache | Google cache
First Place: Coral cache | Google cache
Second Place: Coral cache | Google cache
Third Place: Coral cache | Google cache
Runner Up: Coral cache | Google cache
Runner Up: Coral cache | Google cache
Runner Up: Coral cache | Google cache
It's funny how much I'm getting ragged on by a few people out there for the amount of Asian girls in my screenshots. One of the things I wanted to show off was the playing movies in the icon support, by far the most vidoe files I have are Asian music videos, so I chose to go with those. For the rest... hey, Asian girls are cute, I had some images onhand, so that's what I used.
For mine (the first place winner), I was trying to show off a lot of different feature ideas, so yeah, my Finder ended up being a bit cluttered. We were limited to five screenshots, so once I factored in the Mail and Safari shots, plus Peek getting its own, I just decided to go all out with one main Finder shot. Obviously, in real-world usage, it wouldn't be so cluttered, and everything would have options for turning said features on or off.
saga:~/test rasmus$ find .
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./test1
./test1/a
./test1/a/contents-in-test1-a
./test1/a/contents-in-test1-b
./test1/a/contents-in-test1-c
./test2
./test2/a
./test2/a/contents-in-test2-a
./test2/a/contents-in-test2-b
./test2/a/contents-in-test2-c
saga:~/test rasmus$ cp -r test1/a/* test2/a/
saga:~/test rasmus$ find test2
test2
test2/a
test2/a/contents-in-test1-a
test2/a/contents-in-test1-b
test2/a/contents-in-test1-c
test2/a/contents-in-test2-a
test2/a/contents-in-test2-b
test2/a/contents-in-test2-c
saga:~/test rasmus$
I think you mean "well-known GPL abuser David Watanabe, who makes NewsFire and Acquisition"
it's free and a good contender to the Extensis software, although they still have some polishing to do.
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I should not have to hover over an object to find out what it does.
True, the icons should always be visible and probably a bit bigger.
Objects should not be distinguished only by colour (hel-LO, heard of colour blindness?)...
I think you mean, "objects should not be distinguished only by color." They should certainly be distinguished by color. Anyone who has ever instructed remedial users using both windows and OS X knows how much more quickly people understand "click the red one" as compared to "click the X." Also, to be fair, Apple does have a screen mode for the visually impaired that lets you use icons better suited to the color blind.
That even Apple is consistently failing to meet basic usability standards is a damning indictment of how far their standards have fallen since the days, long ago, when Apple's operating systems were prized for their ease of use, not merely their fluff and eye-candy.
Apple still does a better job than pretty much every other player, but they have had more UI issues than they used to. They have also made some UI advances as well. This is probably some culture clash from the old Apple folks and the newer UNIX guys they've brought on board. It has made OS X a hybrid, neither as well designed of a UI as it used to have, nor a secure as some of the other UNIX's, but somewhere in between. (Note, this is not, in my opinion, a dichotomy. It can be both more secure and more usable.)