HackerMusic Software & Bad Interface Design: Avid’s Sibelius
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A walkthrough of Sibelius shows how inconsistent navigation, ambiguous labels and weak feedback turn ordinary notation tasks into a search through menus.
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...the ribbon was a perfectly fine choice, ...but that Sibelius made really terribleThey have one category called 'Write', ...that contains all the things you need...it instead drags you over to the place on the ribbon...by making the arrow a subtle shade of blue? Do you know how hard that is to see?The subtleties of designing a navigation for a complex program.Remember my settings! Please remember my settings! Remember anything!