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Wade Dorrell  //  Family man, digital arts wonk, and Microsoftian. Boise ID, http://www.waded.org/

Sep 25 / 4:58pm

You're right. I can't.

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Jul 6 / 8:47am

"Quirky" messages are now UX cliche

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The message is a bit quirky and personal. This was rare 5 years ago, but now it’s rare to see a web service that doesn’t have quirky and personal messages. It’s still a good thing, but it’s also wearing on me a bit.

(This message is from Microsoft Hohm, which I understand shows usable power-saving functionality today. A WSJ article suggested the biggest savings come from the existence of such software, not the use of it. What about the existence of quirky power saving software error messages?)

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Jun 24 / 4:24pm

With this much screen space, why isn't pause\play a bit bigger?

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This is the Zune 3.0 client software.... the “Now Playing” screen looks fantastic, but it’s not very discoverable (you click

 to get to this by it way) and neither are some of the primary functions, like playing & pause.

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