Not so long ago, a new project was presented to Humanized (known mainly due to the command interpreter Enso and the son of the famous Jeff Raskin, founder of the Apple Macintosh) -
Songza music search engine with a curious interface (also read the
review in Computerra and see the
project website ).
Wandering around Runet, stumbled upon
an exact copy of the project !
Surprisingly, they picked up the revolutionary idea of the interface. And embodied almost without loss of quality of navigation and usability. Moreover, in my opinion, they made an improvement by placing the play button directly under the cursor, which allows you to avoid moving the mouse to select the most expected action (in the original service, you need to move the mouse up).
Ah, yes, well done! Not good, of course, but good copying is good for the simple reason that good ideas will spread more widely (there are some controversial points in this cruciform navigation, but in general it is very interesting and convenient).
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A new era of interfaces can be considered open?Well, look forward to the
new Firefox .