Archive for May 31, 2005

Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Links and Platform Smear

Michael McCracken discusses hypertext links as native UI elements and the proliferation of similar-but-different controls, which he calls platform smear. I think both links and mouseover effects should be confined to the Web (and hypertext editors such as VoodooPad). Platform smear is unavoidable, but its extent could be reduced. My suggestion would be for Apple to experiment with new interface ideas less publicly.