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They blew it!
I'd like to go in detail because I think that Amazon is going the wrong path with their GUI blow up! This update caused some real GUI pain for me!
1) The Password Dialog has changed to a bigger box. To say it differently they add a bigger padding to the right side of the box (filled with nothing). The top of the box has e.g. 5 pixel padding, the left side has 5 pixel padding, the bottom has 5 pixel padding *but* the right side now has padding of e.g. 20 pixel. Why ? This makes absolutely no sense. The only explaination I have for this is that someone by mistake changed some value in the wrong file and left it that way rather than undoing it.
2) The total mess starts now. Ok the new Settings area looks nice now but the elements inside it are just out of aesthetics. Why ?
Some smaller popup window have an "X" symbol to close the window.
Some smaller popup window have either "OK" or "CANCEL" (or something similar phrased aequivalents) for closing the window.
Some smaller popup window have nothing of that. You need to fingertip outside of that window to close it.
Could you at Amazon please decide and agree on a unified way of handling this ?
Going back to that small "X" button (to close windows). Some are totally misaligned in the dialogs. E.g. the Search field (the lense glass) for example has the closing "X" outside the dialog.
The password dialog has the "X" totally misaligned to the Title of the window. Same applies to other areas where the "X" has been put within the dialog.
Borders around pressable buttons got removed entirely.
Rather than having
(Accept) (Cancel)
You now see
ACCEPT CANCEL
within the window. Hard to distinguish whether you should (or could at all) press them or not. And why did you (Amazon) capitalize these letters ?
Also they capitalized everything else within the new Settings area!
The name of my Kindle was "Kindle" (yes not really creative). It was also shown as "Kindle" within the Settings area. Now they capitalized it and named it "KINDLE". Going inside the area to change this again shows "Kindle" in the textbox but in the label of the settings area it's "KINDLE" again. Why ?
3) I just downloaded the updated Kindle Manual (Release 6). I then notized some tiny symbols showing up at the bottom of said book.
Sorry but I wasn't able to read anything!... So again! Download again!
It said something like "downloading" .... rushing letters.... and then "complete" or something... also rusihing letters.... Damn! Make it even smaller!
4) Had various crashes when I opened a bunch of Amazon downloaded books (going to the cover (swiping from right to left)). In the middle of the swipe process the entire swipe hung and voila... Reset!
These are the things that just sets me up!
Amazon seem to get trapped the same trap that e.g. some open source developers on Linux (e.g. GNOME) developers trap themselves. Developers claiming to know what "usability" is. Starting to "clean" things up where there is nothing to clean! It's hard these days having developers or programmers made aware what GUI aesthetics are. To properly place an "X" button, to close windows. Or not to use different attempts of closing windows. E.g. some with the "X" others with "OK" and "ABORT". Or have most borders around pressable buttons removed, while other dialogs still have them (even with shadow).
This is getting messy.
Thanks for listening!
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