Re: Regarding audio software interfaces

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On 11/12/06 04:37 Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 10:34:58PM -0500, Adam Atlas wrote:
>> Who told you you were supposed to look like audio HARDWARE? Please,
>> stop. It's really bad interface design.

In partial defence of this, many people already know how to interact with
audio hardware.  So it's "intuitive".

> [...]
>
> sliders I can understand, but virtual knobs are the worst.  how the hell
> do you "twist" things with a mouse?  prentend it's a slider!  MAKING
> SENSE NOW!

What about a circular knob that is controlled not by twisting a mouse but by
moving the mouse up/down over it?

But my all-time favourite is a slider or knob that one controls with a mouse
  to try and get an *exact* setting (according to a digital readout),
because there is no keyboard interface.   Some graphics software is guilty
of this too.

• Aaron J. Grier 04:37 on 11 Dec 2006
  • jrodman 05:11 on 11 Dec 2006
  • Robert Rothenberg 09:05 on 11 Dec 2006
    • Tia Marie 09:22 on 11 Dec 2006
• David King 06:11 on 11 Dec 2006
  • jrodman 06:46 on 11 Dec 2006
  • Tia Marie 06:52 on 11 Dec 2006
  • Peter da Silva 14:34 on 11 Dec 2006
  • A. Pagaltzis 14:59 on 11 Dec 2006
• Jonathan Stowe 09:19 on 11 Dec 2006
• Peter da Silva 14:23 on 11 Dec 2006
  • Jonathan Stowe 15:13 on 11 Dec 2006

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