Slightly amusing

Although in general I like what MS has done with Windows 7 (it genuinely is the best Windows so far), there is one constant gripe I have with Windows Explorer, that is they've "unified" the keybinding for Backspace to work just like in IE. That is - instead of navigating up one level in the filesystem hierarchy, it goes back in the navigation history. It is highly confusing, because you might not notice it for a while, if you've navigated to your desired destination by drilling down folder by folder and then pressing Backspace to get back to the parent folder. Where it breaks down though is with the nice new addressbar acting like a double for a navigatable breadcrumbs (a pretty nice and useful feature in it's own right) and an address input widget, when you've navigated in any other direction than one level down the hierarchy, you start getting into the apparently weird navigation behavior. I can\t count how many times I've pressed Backspace multi

As a software developer I care deeply about usability. And in my book, the term "usability" is more than just shiny new widgets on a shiny new website. To me, the usability is just as much about finding the appropriate api abstractions to program against as it is about delivering the best and shiniest UI to our customers. It is all about user experience. If you're a user of an api, the experience of using this api should be just as smooth and effortless as using the best designed desktop or web application...