Comments on: A great example of bad dialog box design

By: JungleDave

JungleDave — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:05:50 +0000

When I saw this article title I thought.. “oh no, someone’s finally going to point out how convoluted the Jungle Disk options dialog has gotten”. Funny that it ended up being the one dialog that we don’t control :)
That being said, we are planning on revamping the options dialog in the future to make it less intimidating for new users while still proving the advanced options requested by our users.

By: Harry Brignull

Harry Brignull — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:44:50 +0000

Good point Douglas. The keychain is a complex concept that you can’t just gloss over. However, I’ll have a stab at it.

By: Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:46:24 +0000

What would a good solution look like? I agree that this is confusing, but you shouldn’t criticize unless you’re prepared to back it up.

;)

By: Harry Brignull

Harry Brignull — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:15:10 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out!

I felt bad about pointing the finger at jungledisk – whose software is free, and rather good for what it is.

On the otherhand, Apple is a worthy target. :-)

By: Hendrik

Hendrik — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:51:58 +0000

No, that dialog box belongs to Apple's Keychain. I recall seeing it for Safari and other applications. Nothing to do with Jungledisk. And yes, I was as irritated as you. More info on the apple developer site