[ID Discuss] AIGA Experience Design knowledge sharing survey

[David Heller]

Hey, I'm all for change, as long as the change works.
I don't think this is a case of "stick the conventions b/c they work". I
think this is the case of just plain bad interaction design.
I.e. I could use the "re-designed" widgets for XP, Flash MX, and Win2000, or
even MacOS and I will probably understand them pretty well. They all have
their own "style" but they function to the task very well. It could be said
that they are skins on the same widgets which would support the conventions
they represent, but you could say that that is what zoomerang is trying to
do as well.

I guess what I'm saying is that "making it your own" is not necessarily a
bad decision. Its all in the implementation. ;)

-- dave