1. Skype 5 for Mac beta
User Experience Review
Good
• The new compact design
works well for most uses.
• Video with multiple
participants is great.
• Sort of up to par with the
Windows version.
Bad
• The new compact design
works does not work well
for some uses. Most
notably, it’s bad for people
having dozens of ongoing
conversations, open for
days on end.
• The new graphic design
wasted screen real estate.
Too many horizontal scroll
bars.

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toolbar is
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user move
Use a smo
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This list must be compacted. A lot.
How about boxes in columns, like the
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Always sho
scroll bar w
ie beyond
the height
Make the input area more like a text field.
When on focus, highlight it with the nice blue
Put the date
two line, da
the text line
whole wind
This white spa
conversation M
edge.

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exist.
Replace it
- Gray ou
panel.
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show a wh
with a thic
There should
bar on a win
space.
m in the list
el.