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On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine

 wrote:
 [ ... what makes a GUI non-90's ]
> 1. Color palette (quite a number of apps still use some kind of websafe palette)

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> 2. Antialiased vs. non-antialiased graphics.

> 3. Quality of textures (if they are used).

> 4. Approach to icon design (this one changes a lot over time, even in

> free software there's recent trend to move to symbolic icons).

> 5. Consistence of graphics (e.g. MusE2 has a mix of oldish and newish stuff).

this is a brilliant summary. thanks alexandre!
> 1. Whether you just keep adding controls you think you need as you go, or

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> whether you start from analysis of the big picture.

> 2. How you organize access to dialogs and how you design them.

> 3. Whether you have dialogs at all (Ableton).

> 4. How much is done right on canvas (Ardour3's MIDI editing).

> 5. Where you draw the line between clean UI and options required for

> power users.

> 6. How the toolbox is designed and organized (e.g. users could do

> without a separate tool for resizing MIDI events in a matrix editor,

> because selection/drawing can do this function just fine)

this is a very nice list too, but i'd add one more thing to it:
7. whether you provide user-configurable keybindings for every

possible action in the GUI

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