Comments on: 10 UI Wishes for 2008

By: Philip Haine

Philip Haine — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:59:16 +0000

Regarding #10, the new Chase ATM have you insert and remove your ATM card. You don’t stick it in the machine. So that problem goes away.

To complement that design, you need to reenter your PIN to get cash. This prevents others from stealing money if you walk away before the session is done.

By: Judging the impact of an innovation | The Product Vision blog

Judging the impact of an innovation | The Product Vision blog — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:30:23 +0000

[...] Over at Steve Portigal’s blog there was a discussion of France Telecom which has been introducing high quality audio to cellular voice calls. (This is #7 on my 10 UI Wishes for 2008.) [...]

By: Philip Haine

Philip Haine — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:44:23 +0000

Pearly, great idea, and I agree!!

The latest version of LaunchBar, which I think is indispensable, has this, and I use it dozens of times a day. (see launchbar.com; I am not affiliated with them; just a happy customer for years)

LaunchBar also has an option to paste unformatted text which is extremely useful. Not all apps have this feature and they all seem to use a different keystroke. When pasting text I almost always use paste unformatted.

By: Pearl

Pearl — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:23:18 +0000

I have one for ya. This is an OS wish.

A copy/paste history in my clipboard. Every time I hit Ctrl V or Cmd V, I get to scroll through a history of text that I have recently pasted. Kind of like hitting the up and down arrows inside a Terminal window.

By: Bojhan

Bojhan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:15:28 +0000

I love these ideas, although some would stumble upon politics and security issues I don’t see them impossible goals

Apart from the Mac related wishes, I hope that especially number 7 gets reality soon.

To note point 6 is already achieved in almost all new cars.

I am not sure why ATM still is designed that way. Here in the Netherlands its been fixed probably for over a decade already.

By: mcr2582

mcr2582 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:24:22 +0000

I’ve been a lifelong Mac user and for a time was forced to use a Dell laptop at work. It has the two buttons you describe, however, I navigate the trackpad with my right hand and use the thumb of my right hand to click the button. For much the same reason I like an ergonomic keyboard, my arm approaches the trackpad at an angle so I click the right-side of the button on my Mac touchpad and navigate from the right-lower quadrant of the trackpad. On the Dell this meant I was always clicking the right-click button and finally had to convert that button to left-click and set right-click to pressing both buttons at the same time, which I could do by laying my thumb across the two. I recently got one of the new Mac laptops with full gesture support. Right-click is now resting two fingers on the trackpad and clicking. This is amazingly natural since I already have two fingers there most of the time for scrolling (both directions). While it’s cool to be able to rotate and resize from the trackpad the same way the iPhone does, I find I don’t use it much. But I find I try to use two-finger right-click on the Dell when I use it on occasion. I do use a Microsoft mouse at work, but more than the right-click button, I use it for the back button during web browsing. Click to follow a link, thumb-click to go back. Like the new trackpad gestures, that was an instant hit with me.