This irritates me, not just in macs but in general:



k Im sure once youve spent 20mins hovering your mouse over stuff it gets second nature but its hardly good design is it? Its not just mac - Office 2007 did it and its really bad design imo. Our helpdesk have to say stuff like click on the thing that looks like 3 lines instead of click on tools then *whatever paragraph option*. This wouldnt be a problem except most users are f**king stupid. The average user can read and click their left mouse button. Thats about it. Abstract concepts are too much for them.


Blackberry do it too:

  Ok, click on the blackberry button
  The what button?
...

Couldnt agree more. I actually didnt know the red/yellow/green things did anything. Im guessing red closes?

Icons are fine when it is obvious what they do, but as you said strange abstract concepts do not make good icons.

I also despise what theyve done to the recent incarnations of Office.

Thats a bug that really pisses me off.  The Minimise, maximise, close buttons that do nothing at all.

The "maximise" button on a mac is retarded. Its "fit to content" not actually maximise, so if your window is small, but the content is smaller, it doesnt do anything.

Yes, very good apple.

The "maximise" button on a mac is retarded. Its "fit to content" not actually maximise, so if your window is small, but the content is smaller, it doesnt do anything.

Yes, very good apple.

totally agree on that one.
found a window manager called shift which means i have a keyboard shortcut to make it maximised, which is quicker. nice.

Matt