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Re:The Restart Page: rebooting experience from vintage opera... by sxates on Friday April 15, 2016 @05:48PM (#11507875)
Interesting to note the patterns of where you put 'default' actions.

Most of the Mac screenshots have the 'ok' button on the right, while windows is usually (but not always) on the left.

This is always a UX debate when designing something new, and you can always find supporting examples of doing it a variety of ways. It's a bit surprising that it still hasn't been settled after all these decades.

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Re:The Restart Page: rebooting experience from vintage opera... by elcapitan on Saturday April 16, 2016 @03:43AM (#11509714)
Maybe because settling UX decisions that have become part of habits, documentation and shared visual language in one environment in favor of the complete opposite would by itself be worst practice in terms of UX?

(see the changes of Windows' Start button and its surroundings and how users appreciated it)

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