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Cell towers disguised as fake trees in Disney World
These cell phone towers are skillfully disguised to look enough like natural trees to blend into the landscape. I remember seeing a similar design in Britain, where it took a real effort to pick out the cell towers even when you knew were they were. It's a brilliant idea. This illusion works because most of us don't carefully scrutinise anything that looks natural, we just accept it and move on.
This is one of the key elements of good design and a successful computer interface. The Mac interface works so well because it usually mimics the way the real world works. For instance, when you drag an item out of a folder on to the desktop, you move the item itself.
Windows, of course does it different - when you drag something in that psychotic hallucination of an operating system an alias is created - leaving the original where it was. That's fine if your users are assumed to be idiots, but it violates the real-world experience of all human beings. When you pick up and move something on your desk, it doesn't create a ghost of the original when you let go, the actual item moves. Windows' bad design leads to all sorts of deranged behaviour and accidents, especially when a user moves to the Mac and proceeds to break all their software by dragging everything to the desktop.
I won't go into the why Microsoft thinks clicking on the START button to turn off the computer makes any sense at all, that deserves a rant of its own.
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