This is why I don't like doing user interface design for other people. Depending on the way a particular person relates to your application, the idea may or may not be a good one. So, in the end, almost nobody has an interface that works exactly the way they would like it to.Too true. Here's what I said on the same subject some months ago:
I don't envy the Empeg guys. I've always said that there is no such thing as the perfect user interface, and this is no exception. There are exactly as many perfect user interfaces as there are users. A UI is always a compromise between all the possible users. As soon as I express my opinion about how I think it should work, someone else pipes up with a desire to see it behave in exactly the opposite fashion. The volume control is a classic example: I recall hearing numerous complaints that it was too slow, and as soon as they sped it up the other half of the users started to complaining that it was too fast.
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Tony Fabris
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