Comments on: Distinguishing windows that look too similar http://stealthisidea.com/articles/finder-colorization/ Philip Haine's articles on Product Vision, Innovation and Design Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:39:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dave Cortright http://stealthisidea.com/articles/finder-colorization/comment-page-1/#comment-2368 Dave Cortright Sat, 27 Dec 2008 07:29:27 +0000 http://stealthisidea.com/?p=470#comment-2368 A goal I'd add to this is to minimize or ideally eliminate any active action by the user. If the user is required to take action before this feature is useful, as is the case in color-coding, then it will only be useful to an order of magnitude less users. You could auto-color the windows; however the heuristics for doing this aren't obvious and the results may then just appear as random noise. I'm a big fan of watermark text. How about for blurred windows, place watermarked text over the entire window with the type & title of the window (folder name, search criteria, app & file name...). A goal I’d add to this is to minimize or ideally eliminate any active action by the user. If the user is required to take action before this feature is useful, as is the case in color-coding, then it will only be useful to an order of magnitude less users.

You could auto-color the windows; however the heuristics for doing this aren’t obvious and the results may then just appear as random noise.

I’m a big fan of watermark text. How about for blurred windows, place watermarked text over the entire window with the type & title of the window (folder name, search criteria, app & file name…).

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