Unhiding apps » Forum Post by TeamTJ

Click Stardock logo button, top left, click/check show hidden apps.

Awesome, thank you!!

-1 point for hidden UI elements.

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-1 point for hidden UI elements.

Here I must disagree. Should be at LEAST -5 points for hidden/non-intuitive UI elements! This is precisely my point when I say that Impulse (and Vista, etc.) are extremely user-UNfriendly. Please tell the Stardock devs to stop copying Microsoft's stupid UI "improvements".

The Stardock Button is basically the File button of Impulse. The look and the flow of Impulse depends on quality of smoothness and the clean look all around.

Keeping with the design of Impulse what would you change the button to? (Said with out any sarcasm at all, really asking for input).

Keeping with the design of Impulse what would you change the button to?

The Stardock Button is basically the File button of Impulse. The look and the flow of Impulse depends on quality of smoothness and the clean look all around. Keeping with the design of Impulse what would you change the button to? (Said with out any sarcasm at all, really asking for input).

Umm... how about STANDARD tabs and menus, like every other Windows program out there produced since 1993, following MS's guidelines for Windows GUI programming?

Umm... how about STANDARD tabs and menus, like every other Windows program out there produced since 1993, following MS's guidelines for Windows GUI programming

LMAO . . have you seen anything in Vista or Office 2k7? How about Windows Media Player?

I see your point . . but having some style and looking unique is a good thing for the business Stardock is in. I think it just needs a tweak or two.

I think that a standard button would fly in the face of the design of the whole thing. However it does bring up a valid point and I will move each of them onto the higher ups to consider. Thank you for your input!

I guess my biggest issue/point here is that the big blue Stardock image in the top left corner of the application window looks (and is appropriately placed, according to all of the GUI design guidelines I've ever read) like a program ICON, and/or IMAGE... not a clickable BUTTON. So, if I, as the user, do not recognize a UI element as a button which I am supposed to and/or expected to press, then I will never find such button and its hidden functionality. Users have come to expect well-written/well-designed applications to look and feel and operate following certain standard guidelines/rules; and when somebody changes that design, to the user it feels like the program is broken, or the designer is hiding things. If you must change the design of something, do not change it so radically in one fell swoop... you will confuse and alienate too many users. Either make the button look like a button, and move it to where a user would expect a button to be; or add standard pull-down menus, etc., which users ALSO expect them to be.

First,I applaude Stardocks effort to create an interface that doesn't look like everything else out there, but why not have a mouse-over flyout menu,or text, with an option to disable the mouse-over? At least more people (like myself) would "accidentally" find it that way. Ditto for the "change/remove registration" options on the registration page. That way,the style you are going for would remain unchanged. Impulse is easier to use than SDC, imo, after you get used to it but new people have so much information to digest,we shouldn't get lost on page one.