Missing Features

Most users don’t know that you can add a folder to your taskbar to quickly access that folder’s contents. It is a great productivity boost and an easy way to access frequently used files quickly.

So how to you add one? Since Windows creates an interface of expected dragability, then a user would logically try to drag a folder to the taskbar to add it. Right?

Wrong. When you try to drag a folder to the taskbar you get a nice circle-with-a-line-through-it icon to indicate you can’t drag a folder to the taskbar. So one lazy programmer took the time to program a nice way to tell you can’t do something, instead of just making the add folder process work by being able to drag a folder.

Why is this bad design? Because the Windows interface creates the expectation that dragging a folder to a destination will add, move or reference it in someway. Instead, it just doesn’t work.

Missing features axiom #4: just make it work (JMIW).

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