Comments on: Branding Crimes: 4. The Start-Button http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/branding-crimes-4-the-start-button/ We architect information. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:55:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: RSA online http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/branding-crimes-4-the-start-button/comment-page-1/#comment-151576 RSA online Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:59:19 +0000 http://www.informationarchitects.jp/branding-crimes-4-the-start-button#comment-151576 <p>Maybe rather than Start is should be labeled "Do Stuff" ?</p> Maybe rather than Start is should be labeled “Do Stuff” ?

]]> By: Sunshine Coast Web Designer http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/branding-crimes-4-the-start-button/comment-page-1/#comment-151548 Sunshine Coast Web Designer Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:02:13 +0000 http://www.informationarchitects.jp/branding-crimes-4-the-start-button#comment-151548 <p>A slightly computer illiterate person I know once asked me why you would use the 'Start' button when you've finished using your computer and want to shut it down. Fair point I think.</p> A slightly computer illiterate person I know once asked me why you would use the ‘Start’ button when you’ve finished using your computer and want to shut it down. Fair point I think.

]]> By: Australian Web Directory http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/branding-crimes-4-the-start-button/comment-page-1/#comment-151484 Australian Web Directory Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:55:07 +0000 http://www.informationarchitects.jp/branding-crimes-4-the-start-button#comment-151484 <p>I like having the Ubuntu taskbar on top. Our eyes tend to start top-left so it's more convenient for me to open menu items from the top left. Thanks for the post.</p> I like having the Ubuntu taskbar on top. Our eyes tend to start top-left so it’s more convenient for me to open menu items from the top left. Thanks for the post.

]]> By: Brisbane web designer http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/branding-crimes-4-the-start-button/comment-page-1/#comment-150658 Brisbane web designer Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:36:11 +0000 http://www.informationarchitects.jp/branding-crimes-4-the-start-button#comment-150658 <p>It would be nice if the program menu would launch if you clicked anywhere on the desktop where there isn't an icon.</p> It would be nice if the program menu would launch if you clicked anywhere on the desktop where there isn’t an icon.

]]> By: ingeniuz http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/branding-crimes-4-the-start-button/comment-page-1/#comment-120881 ingeniuz Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:57:06 +0000 http://www.informationarchitects.jp/branding-crimes-4-the-start-button#comment-120881 <p>[...] marca” hacia el concepto del bot�n “Inicio” que sufren los usuarios de Windows: Branding Crimes: 4. The Start-Button. Hemos odidado esto desde hace 12 a�os - ese bot�n que abre un men� desplegable. S�lo las [...]</p> [...] marca” hacia el concepto del bot�n “Inicio” que sufren los usuarios de Windows: Branding Crimes: 4. The Start-Button. Hemos odidado esto desde hace 12 a�os – ese bot�n que abre un men� desplegable. S�lo las [...]

]]> By: Felix http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/branding-crimes-4-the-start-button/comment-page-1/#comment-95378 Felix Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:53:17 +0000 http://www.informationarchitects.jp/branding-crimes-4-the-start-button#comment-95378 <p>I think the argument is a bit flawed and not really very interesting. Anyone who knows a bit about the Windows OS knows that you can place the taskbar wherever you like. On my new wide-screen laptop (with Windows Vista), I have placed my (widened) taskbar on the left side of the screen, which means the Start-button (or Vista logo-button if you like to call it that) is in the upper left corner. Problem solved. Right?</p> <p>Am not really a big Microsoft fan and definitely not an Apple fan (if possible, I think Apple is even more evil than Microsoft!). But let us not create problems where there are none. Windows works and I am sure OS X does too. More or less. ;)</p> I think the argument is a bit flawed and not really very interesting. Anyone who knows a bit about the Windows OS knows that you can place the taskbar wherever you like. On my new wide-screen laptop (with Windows Vista), I have placed my (widened) taskbar on the left side of the screen, which means the Start-button (or Vista logo-button if you like to call it that) is in the upper left corner. Problem solved. Right?

Am not really a big Microsoft fan and definitely not an Apple fan (if possible, I think Apple is even more evil than Microsoft!). But let us not create problems where there are none. Windows works and I am sure OS X does too. More or less. ;)

]]> By: Sameer http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/branding-crimes-4-the-start-button/comment-page-1/#comment-94556 Sameer Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:37:56 +0000 http://www.informationarchitects.jp/branding-crimes-4-the-start-button#comment-94556 <p>Consistency is valuable sometimes no? And yes I know Oscar Wilde said that "consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative", but perhaps we should not be assuming that the user is imaginative and open to new ways of doing things.</p> Consistency is valuable sometimes no? And yes I know Oscar Wilde said that “consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative”, but perhaps we should not be assuming that the user is imaginative and open to new ways of doing things.

]]> By: gerhardb http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/branding-crimes-4-the-start-button/comment-page-1/#comment-89937 gerhardb Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:26:01 +0000 http://www.informationarchitects.jp/branding-crimes-4-the-start-button#comment-89937 <p>START or not to START - for me, it's a shame, because the freakin button only appears minutes after my start. I personally believe, start is a false methaphore. Maybe start is right for windows starter users, but to be honsest, our kids are learning at school about the alt-tab shortcut or even, just click on the icon and the neccesary allpication launches, so what the hell is the start button for? </p> <p>Better it should be named: configurator, or something else. because I need it more or less just to configure something. I also see the alt-tab at colleagues using a mac - I would like to have a mac </p> <p>And by the way, I also see people starting their machine in the morning, STARTing (launching) one application, for the whole day! So what do they need a START button for?</p> START or not to START – for me, it’s a shame, because the freakin button only appears minutes after my start. I personally believe, start is a false methaphore. Maybe start is right for windows starter users, but to be honsest, our kids are learning at school about the alt-tab shortcut or even, just click on the icon and the neccesary allpication launches, so what the hell is the start button for?

Better it should be named: configurator, or something else. because I need it more or less just to configure something. I also see the alt-tab at colleagues using a mac – I would like to have a mac

And by the way, I also see people starting their machine in the morning, STARTing (launching) one application, for the whole day! So what do they need a START button for?

]]> By: xexagon http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/branding-crimes-4-the-start-button/comment-page-1/#comment-88414 xexagon Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:11:35 +0000 http://www.informationarchitects.jp/branding-crimes-4-the-start-button#comment-88414 <p>I tried putting the taskbar at the top of the screen (so that the start button was top left). Strange - I agree that the flow of information seemed more natural, but opening a program resulted in some visual confusion between the bar and the file menu and icons. My eye kept getting pulled upwards.</p> <p>@Rob Chant - the behaviour is 'instinctual' because we read from top left, across then down. We learn to do this in early childhood.</p> <p>The real crime is turning the machine off by pressing the start button.</p> I tried putting the taskbar at the top of the screen (so that the start button was top left). Strange – I agree that the flow of information seemed more natural, but opening a program resulted in some visual confusion between the bar and the file menu and icons. My eye kept getting pulled upwards.

@Rob Chant – the behaviour is ‘instinctual’ because we read from top left, across then down. We learn to do this in early childhood.

The real crime is turning the machine off by pressing the start button.

]]> By: xexagon http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/branding-crimes-4-the-start-button/comment-page-1/#comment-88415 xexagon Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:15:28 +0000 http://www.informationarchitects.jp/branding-crimes-4-the-start-button#comment-88415 <p>I tried putting the taskbar at the top of the screen (so that the start button was top left). Strange - I agree that the flow of information seemed more natural, but opening a program resulted in some visual confusion between the bar and the file menu and icons. My eye kept getting pulled upwards. (http://img234.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tbartopyf9.png)</p> <p>@Rob Chant - the behaviour is 'instinctual' because we read from top left, across then down. We learn to do this in early childhood.</p> <p>The real crime is turning the machine off by pressing the start button.</p> I tried putting the taskbar at the top of the screen (so that the start button was top left). Strange – I agree that the flow of information seemed more natural, but opening a program resulted in some visual confusion between the bar and the file menu and icons. My eye kept getting pulled upwards. (http://img234.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tbartopyf9.png)

@Rob Chant – the behaviour is ‘instinctual’ because we read from top left, across then down. We learn to do this in early childhood.

The real crime is turning the machine off by pressing the start button.

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