![]() ![]() FYI: Mac OSX icons face directly at you – probably the best solution. ![]() For some unknown reason, Microsoft designers decided to flip them. If this isn’t weird enough, the Windows XP’s icons and even conceptual Vista icons designed by Iconfactory faced the right (pun) way. ![]() This actually conflicts with the official user experience guidelines suggesting the perspective of icons face left. The only icon in Vista off the top of my head which does this correctly are the “folders” icon which open up towards the right. Assuming the user sits in the middle of the monitor, the icons should in fact face right towards you and not the edge of the monitor. The problem is, by default, Windows displays icons from left to right. But has it ever occurred to you it’s facing the wrong direction – away from you? At least one guy did, and this is just one of the minor details under scrutiny at the Windows UX Taskforce that is particularly fascinating, to me at least. Some of you might have even clicked on it and few of you probably have a shortcut on your desktop. No doubts you’ve all seen the “Computer” icon in Windows Vista. I know what you’re thinking, “has it really come down to this”. ![]()
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