Chris Pirillo’s Dad Gives OS X a Spin ⇥

Enlightening to see how a new user takes to a completely different environment. There are some good points in here for UI designers. For example, he minimizes Safari into the Dock with Google’s home page loaded “in case [he] needs it later”. His experience with the Dock echoes some of Siracusa’s criticisms of it from the 10.0 days. On the plus side, Pirillo’s dad (also a Pirillo, obviously) found the searchable Help menu quickly.

Compare and contrast with his experience a day earlier using Windows 8, which he notes is convoluted and confusing. The two different interfaces do not work together at all.

Via Gruber.