I’ve been using Coda as my main web development tool the last few months and I must say that it’s a great development tool that makes me work more efficient. It’s easy to use, you can easily search through all files in a big project and you can publish all your changes to the server with just a click or two. When I need to debug server-side code I just swap to Komodo.

Coda has a fully featured file browser for your local file system and with just a click you can browse the remote file system on the server. You can easily swap between your local and remote file system by clicking on one of two tabs (one tab for the local file system and one tab for the remote). This is a great feature, it’s by no means groundbraking since a lot of different tools also has this feature but it really works smoothly in Coda.

There’s just one thing that bugs me. They’ve placed a small button on top of the tab for the remote file-system that disconnects the connection to the remote server when you click on it.

It might just be me but it’s been more than one time that I by mistake has disconnected the remote connection when all I wanted to do was to browse the remote file system.

I guess this is where design, once again, has inflicted on user-friendliness. Coda is in a big perspective a great example on really good user-friendly design and this small flaw is perhaps not so bad.

Anyone else that has thought about this or has another example?

/Simon