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Software Should: “catch your eye and make you want to use it”.
I stole this phrase from a comment by ch00kz on the Bend text editor project on CodePlex . I think this is something very solid to build upon. I am very big on aesthetics and this program does catch my eye and it makes me "Want" to use it. Here...

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Software should: adapt to users desired size/aspect ratio; crash less; remember user settings
Went back to my last blog (on http://rrelyea.spaces.live.com/blog ) to look at other entries in my Software Should series. Resizable dialogs are important, especially when you have any scrollbars Software should adapt to the size/aspect ratio that the...

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Software should: allow checkbox’s label to check
Just ran into another piece of software that triggered one of my pet peeve’s. Was installing Evernote since Rudi Grobler ’s “Week of <XAML />” day 0 talk listed it as the 1st WPF example app. The setup program’s last page includes a checkbox which...

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Software should adapt and improve when UI paradigms change – rethink, don’t just port
During WPF’s first version (v3, of course) we considered building a porting tool to enable WinForms developers to easily migrate to WPF. We didn’t build that migration tool because: We thought that the UI paradigm changes didn’t deserve a simple port...

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Some feedback on Seesmic Look
I spent another 30 minutes with Seesmic Look now, and I wrote down issues I found with the UI. Learn more (or install): http://seesmic.com/seesmic_desktop/look/ As I mentioned as a tweet ( http://twitter.com/rrelyea/statuses/8035779666 ) Bunch of nits...

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Software Should have a great Install Experience…yes, it does matter
On blogs.WindowsClient.net , I saw a link to Andrej Tozon’s blog about the PhotoSuru install experience .  Read his post.  Try the install experience of PhotoSuru . User experience is more than just the app runtime…it is the app lifecycle.

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