People always hate when things don’t work as they expect. This doesn’t have to apply for software products. You bang your TV, when it suddenly turns black and white. You shake your remote when it doesn’t work even though you know that the battery is dead. Usability is a great area. As a Usability expert, myself,, I always poke into applications and check whether it’s “easy to use”.
One such example was my previous post.
Today, while working on Visual studio, I made some changes to the solution that was open but wanted to revert back. I thought, If I close it “without saving” and re-open it, my changes would be ignored. So I clicked the X button to close VS 2005, and got this prompt.
The file cannot be saved as it’s write protected.
Save, Overwrite, Cancel.
Cancel brings me back to the original and doesn’t quit VS 2005. So In short, if I make a change, it has to be saved, no matter whether I like it or not. The only way out for me was to kill VS2005 to revert my changes. Bad… very bad…
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