while we’re on the topic of UI/UX does HN have any recommendations for primers on the subject?
http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/qtime.htm
Interface Hall of Shame
- QuickTime 4.0 Player -
Amid much fanfare, Apple recently released a beta version of the QuickTime 4.0 Player. Intended to showcase the technological improvements of the QuickTime 4.0 multimedia technology, the QuickTime 4.0 Player sports a completely redesigned user interface. The new interface represents an almost violent departure from the long established standards that have been the hallmark of Apple software. Ease of Use has always been paramount to Apple, but after exploring the QuickTime 4.0 Player, the rationale behind Apple's recent "Think Different" advertising campaign is now clear.
Another proprietary menace back then was RealMedia and RealPlayer.
Some time later the .dll codec blobs for both QuickTime and RealMedia were horribly hacked to run under mplayer (and Linux) by the mplayerhq.hu people.
It was pretty cool feat back then.