Opting for Imitation Over Innovation
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The disruption from changing contracting gigs is dying down now. I’m
really happy to have changed projects because I’m working on a
completely different kind of WPF app now, and it’s really rounding out
my WPF knowledge.
I’ve finally got over my sugar rush from doing some awesomely cool WPF
over the last year, and started taking a more mature look at the Home
Document Manager interface. I’ve decided to opt for mimicking Outlook 2007.
Not because I’m particularly fond of it, but simply because it is
familiar. There are no surprises. Every menu and button is exactly
where you would expect it to be.
I really wanted to be innovative, but I’m coming around to the idea
that “simple and familiar” will win over “different and showy” with non
prosumers every time.
The cloned UI is coming along nicely. I’ll hopefully have a screenshot in the next week.
