On deck: Most usable Winamp skin
Sunday, May 16, 2004 by Frogboy | Discussion: GUI Championships News
The judges are currerently working judging several events now. The next one up is the most usable Winamp skin.
That is, at the end of the day, which Winamp skin do you think you would actually end up using?
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Brother Rabbit
Reply #22 Monday, May 17, 2004 12:18 PM
Reply #22 Monday, May 17, 2004 12:18 PM
I beg of the judges to look to what is right in this category and to understand where most people's common sense take them. A big crazy shape isn't useable, useable is attention to details, innovative and sharp design, and overall at ease when you use it. It's something familiar, unique, yet common, a spin on things, with a tang of fanesse. Now I sound like a New York furniture catalogue, see look what you guys have done to me.
Brother Rabbit
Reply #23 Monday, May 17, 2004 12:33 PM
Reply #23 Monday, May 17, 2004 12:33 PM
...and yes I second the motion for 20CECIL to stop flooding everything with diluted votes for things that tend to not even place in the long run. I sense he's just trying to curb a vote here and there for his friends.
MikeB314
Reply #24 Monday, May 17, 2004 12:46 PM
Reply #24 Monday, May 17, 2004 12:46 PM
Speaking of flooding ...
Take a deep breath, Brother Rabbit. All these folks are entitled to their opinions, well informed or otherwise. In the end, it's the judges votes that count. 
Tiptup
Reply #26 Monday, May 17, 2004 1:41 PM
Reply #26 Monday, May 17, 2004 1:41 PM
GOLD - EMP2
SILVER - SENCILLO
BRONZE - AMNEX
Some of the designs are innovative, but EMP2 has them all beat in actual usability. I don't care if it looks pretty if I can't use it. EMP2 looks the best, has really cool color schemes, and has a nice reduced version.
MikeB314
Reply #27 Monday, May 17, 2004 3:01 PM
Reply #27 Monday, May 17, 2004 3:01 PM
I would have to say I've found D-Reliction most usable. It's the kind of skin I could immediatley use when I installed it. I didn't have to hunt for any buttons or wonder "what does this do?". My only problem is that I spend an hour checking out all the color themes.
Rontz
Reply #28 Monday, May 17, 2004 4:35 PM
Reply #28 Monday, May 17, 2004 4:35 PM
brother rabbit.... calm down... EVERYBODY may post in here as often as he wants and what he wants as long as he doesn't attack anyone else.
additionally you can't tell anyone else how usefull he has to find a particular skin. that's totally idiotic! if he finds other skins more useful than you, ok, that's why we ALL may post in here and not only one person!
Brother Rabbit
Reply #29 Monday, May 17, 2004 5:55 PM
Reply #29 Monday, May 17, 2004 5:55 PM
It's not a matter of usefulness anymore, because it never was the fact. The point is, the skin is in the wrong category all together. The authors could have designed it where features were top heavy and go into Power user.
--Gabriel
Reply #30 Monday, May 17, 2004 10:27 PM
Reply #30 Monday, May 17, 2004 10:27 PM
D-Reliction for Gold,
EMP2 for Silver,
Meh? ... for bronze.
20CECIL
Reply #32 Tuesday, May 18, 2004 2:05 AM
Reply #32 Tuesday, May 18, 2004 2:05 AM
Brother Rabbit.... can't you read? Calm down! Who's flooding now? By the way...I write a comment if I feel like it! Another thing! I'm not trying to "curb" anything for anyone! I don't know any of the guys/girls in this forum - only by there nickname!
Tnx MikeB314 and Rontz
Jared Kole
Reply #33 Tuesday, May 18, 2004 3:54 AM
Reply #33 Tuesday, May 18, 2004 3:54 AM
just wondering why enkera is topping so many people's lists? its very nice, and yes all the buttons work, but that doesnt make a skin MOST usable. remember, usable isnt the one YOU LIKE to use, its the one thats easiest to use. or maybe im missing the point...anyways...
1)LayerONE (yes, im biased)
2)D-Reliction
3)AR-7
883
Reply #34 Tuesday, May 18, 2004 5:32 AM
Reply #34 Tuesday, May 18, 2004 5:32 AM
Rabbit, do me a favor and shut the hell up. I've explained why my skin is in this category, and it's getting a little annoying to read how people complain about it. I'll do it one last time for you: I started this skin before I thought about entering this competition and I FREAKIN HAD TO CHOOSE TWO CATEGORIES. Do a little research on a skin before you start bitchin about it.
Thanks Cecil, I appreciate your support a lot, though you should let other people state their opinion. @ the site admins: these "give us your opinion" news post might have been a bad idea.
Plague_
Reply #35 Tuesday, May 18, 2004 7:21 AM
Reply #35 Tuesday, May 18, 2004 7:21 AM
I'm starting to agree with 883 somewhat...
The amount of bitching is getting out of hand here.
I just hope that the "user's choice" category will be done in some other way than a simple poll or comments like here, because of the high risk of cheating and bitching.
I kinda went through the same thing in the most creative category, as 883 is going through in this one and let me tell you, it's not that fun.
Now let's all calm down a little here..
Rontz
Reply #36 Tuesday, May 18, 2004 10:34 AM
Reply #36 Tuesday, May 18, 2004 10:34 AM
so true...(that bitchin' thing)
and brother rabbit: a skin CAN not be entered in the wrong category if it's in the one in which the skinner wanted to have it! if you think other skins are more useable, vote for them! that's what this thread is for!!!!
btw 883: you didn't HAVE to enter two categories 
it was said UP TO two
it was said UP TO two 
883
Reply #38 Tuesday, May 18, 2004 11:08 AM
Reply #38 Tuesday, May 18, 2004 11:08 AM
Yeah great, so what's the big deal? either way, that won't affect the votes of the judges.
Brother Rabbit
Reply #39 Tuesday, May 18, 2004 3:16 PM
Reply #39 Tuesday, May 18, 2004 3:16 PM
883, don't get all bitchy because some people object to your skin. That's life. I'm glad I simply made the point that your skin should not place in the likelyness of the others that should. It's nothing personal to your work, your work is fine, gold from the sky, god's work, but the point is, you have to understand where the questioning of your skin being in a Useable catagory would come from.
Calm.
Plague_
Reply #40 Tuesday, May 18, 2004 4:31 PM
Reply #40 Tuesday, May 18, 2004 4:31 PM
Why was it up to us, the skin authors, to decide the categories anyways?
It should definitely have been up to the judges!
So if my skin was in the wrong category, and every single user on the planet think my skin is the best "power user" skin, but it's not in that category, it cannot win?
That sucks, it really really sucks..
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Reply #21 Monday, May 17, 2004 12:13 PM