Talking about the interactive experience of "minimizing" and "shutting"

With the development of the Internet, different software in different roles have different ways of interaction, the following to talk about our daily contact with the "minimize" and "close."

According to the original design intent, "minimize" is to temporarily fold up the program, "Close" is a pure program shutdown. But now you can see the following in many clients:

Click "Minimize": 1, to the bottom left 2, to the bottom right of the screen

Click "Off": 1, minimized to the lower right 2, close the program

Bad design: 360 security guards, cool dogs, QQ music

Click "Minimize" to the bottom left of the screen

Click on "Close": The program is not closed, but no hint to minimize the bottom right (tray)

These clients have a common feature: users need to run in the background for a long time. So the designer creates an interactive psychological impression: When you click "Close", you don't close the program completely, but you continue to run at the bottom right (the tray), but it's not like "minimize" to occupy your lower left taskbar position.

Many software uses this design, users can generally understand this meaning, such as 360 of the system software, users know that these software is basically not out of the running, so at the point of closing the symbol (x) can also probably understand the software is only minimized to the bottom right (tray) to run it.

But I think the "Turn off button can't close" The design is still too lame, I guess this bad design should be the software business in order to not easily allow users to close directly and slowly appear.

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I think the PC client, a good "minimize" and "exit" design, according to different software divided into two kinds:

1, the need for frequent operation of the interface software (folder/browser/photoshop/office software, etc.):

Minimize: Show directly to the lower left

OFF: Direct Shutdown program (to determine whether to join the confirmation shutdown prompt)

Well done:
chrome-minimized at the bottom left, click the Close button to close all open tabs without prompting
(Do not join the confirmation shutdown reminder, because the probability of misoperation is small, users can generally distinguish between the tab closure and the entire browser off the different)

* Firefox and IE confirmation off reminders, I think is unnecessary, as shown:

2, does not need the long-term operation interface, but needs the long-term running software (antivirus/im/music):

Minimize: Show directly to the lower right

OFF: Direct Shutdown program (to determine whether to join the confirmation shutdown prompt)

Well done:

Thousands of listening, qq-minimized to the lower right, close the reminder is minimized to the lower right or close the program

(Join to determine the closure of the reminder is because of the wrong operation probability, the user used the article said before the poor design of the software developed habits and lead to misoperation, for example, before using a cool dog, click "Close" it minimized to the lower right, so that QQ is also so, the formation of misoperation. Without those poor design, the product design standards Unified, this hint is completely unnecessary to appear. ）

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Some use the "click off button to minimize the tray" design software is also a necessity, because when a lot of software use this kind of bad design, users will form a certain habit, and in order to not want to lose users to meet these user habits, and finally did this design. So it caused us to have so much more on the desktop, click on the "close" but can not shut down the software.

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