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Posted by Steve on 12/18/05 01:10
Kimba W. Lion <kimbawlion@aol.com> wrote:
>>The legalistic bludgeoning aside, somebody needs to take the whole lot of
>>DVD menu designers, tie them up and hit them over the head until they learn
>>a simple principle: The purpose of a menu is to get to the feature I want.
>>Not to waste my time with flying text, silly animations, movie spoilers,
>>repetitive soundtracks.
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>Amen to that. Whoever invented the noisy animated menu should be shot.
>Imagine if, when you wanted to use your computer, you had to put up with
>stupid animations like paper clips waving about, or dogs looking through
>books...
Yup, same principle as web design - should be simple, obvious, easy to
navigate. And ideally it should be consistent from one DVD to the
next...
--
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes
may be the biggest mistake of all.
....Peter McWilliams
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