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by YawHawHawn 770 days ago
It was also fun. The "Reveal" icon is a guy who opens his trenchcoat when you roll over it.

Missing the late Peter Warner, designer.

Fun historical note: When Steve Jobs flew the Shake team up to Cupertino, he came to lunch for a meet-&-greet. He sat down and said some things; among them was, "Yeah, you guys built this cross-platform UI that looks the same on every platform... but we have people here who know more about UI than you ever will."

Needless to say, the Shake UI remained intact for the rest of its days.

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People were shocked, SHOCKED, that we weren't willing to use the apple-standard file browser. I had the hardest time explaining to them that users would rather see something like "filename.1-2000#.tif" instead of, you know, 2000 individual filenames...