Friday, February 25, 2011

Top 5 UX updates in IE9 RC

Based on your feedback, we also made it much easier to refine search queries in the One Box. Based on your feedback, IE9?s download manager will now display the download speed, and download notifications are animated and more noticeable. Based on your feedback, pinned sites now support multiple home pages ? ?redefining awesome? according to this comment. With Paste & Navigate (Control-Shift-L), hardcore enthusiasts can save a step pasting into the address bar. We?ve reduced the number of pixels in the frame, and updated the visuals, making the active tab easier to identify, and made it easier to close inactive tabs. We acted on your feedback unless there was a clear pattern of inconsistency (for example, big back button is bad? no, it?s good). There?s a list at the end of this post of additional improvements, and we will detail them in future blog posts.

In hindsight, this comment from the original beta post was prescient:

  • Tabs on same line as address bar! If this is believed to be the better way of doing things by yourselves then fine, leave it as defaullt but at least give us the option to move it around!!
  • Download speed not shown in download dialog. ??? Not acceptable.
  • Somebody said something about paste and go...it is indeed a useful feature. Can't be too hard to implement ;)

In this video you can see some of these changes that resulted from the feedback you provided:

Get Microsoft Silverlight Acting on Feedback IE9 Release Candidate Available for Download - IEBlog - Site Home - MSDN Blog


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