I find these long articles about such tiny details odd - extremely nit-picky and ultimately pointless. Granted this is only based on personal experience and the experiences of people I know. Basically people figure out the shift key in less than ten seconds and it's not an issue. Is this really a big deal for people? It looks nice and it works well, who cares? It seems like you can always arbitrarily argue that a cer…
If something else looks fine as well and works better, why not use that? For first-time or occasional users things like that can get needlessly annoying, and if "it's just a tiny detail" is applied to everything, it quickly leads to "death by a thousand paper-cuts". So yes, most people probably don't care about it, but IMHO good UX design should care about tiny details and look into small effects.
Re: Keyboard Smörgåsbord
#11My original comment was probably too abrasive - it wasn't so much that it was just a tiny detail or that tiny details don't matter (they obviously do). I guess I just find UX more subjective - seems easy to argue that any decision is bad or good based on whatever criteria you're choosing to argue about.