Design: Lotus Notes Part 2

You think my last post on the design of Lotus Notes was all there was wrong with it? You've never even seen it have you? Remember we're looking at v5 so these bugs gaping holes in design may have been fixed later. Four more:Back and Forward - I have no idea what kind of rationale is behind the back and forward navigational buttons in Notes, but it does not conform to our Earth logic. Instead of having a back button that sensibly means go back within the current context (i.e. the current tab), it goes back through different tabs. This is particularly infuriating in browser mode, where there is not necessarily any other easy way of going back a page. It's also easy for it to just get stuck and throw away the history, stranding you where you are. Good move. The forward button? Well, it doesn't work so much. It goes forwards when it wants to, but not always.Attach - The Attach icon only works if a new email message body is in focus. If you're in any of the header fields, you can't ...

21:52:22 November 4, 2005, Friday (PST) Source: Solitude

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