Whatever it is I think I see becomes an iPhone interface to me …
I want to drag and resize everything. Put my grubby hands on it and handle it like a “thing”.
As I go through the interface for our new software version I can’t help but want to drag items around on the page and put them where I want. Even with the increased real estate of a 15 inch laptop it doesn’t seem like its enough. I want to open a Rich Text Window – hold the bottom left corner and the top right corner – slowly stretch it apart and resize it to about 24 inches across. Then when I want to insert a link, I want to touch (physically touch) like where I can feel the rounded beveled edge of the button under my fingers (the button should be about the size of 3 fingers) and when that dialog appears to choose a link – I want to drag it to the center of my viewing area. Resize it the way I did the Rich Text Block.
Cool Plastic Feel
It would be nice to feel the cool plastic of these windows in my hands too – while I am handling them. I then want to push all other things away while I work on this link. When I am done with the link and click the “finish” button with my index and middle finger, I want the most relevant window (which I previously slide away) to reappear in the same dimension and size as it was when I started linking.
Is this really too much to ask?