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UI Follies: Windows Media Player Edition

Windows Media Player may be the only windows application with a UI that gets progressively worse with each new version. It is my media player of choice due only to overwhelming indifference on my part; I curse every time I use it. That's why I was so encouraged

user experience

Do You Want to Save?

Why is it, 10 years after the publication of Alan Cooper’s seminal, About Face, applications still regularly present this dialog to me? Cooper said it best on page 136: It is possible to argue that users have come to expect this behavior; that its absence would cause experienced users