13 May
2024
13 May
'24
12:20 p.m.
On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 06:22:15PM -0500, Nevin Liber wrote:
GUIs were better at discoverability. The menu at the
top made it easy to see
(and constantly reinforced) what was possible, at least until we got into the
era of contextual menus, gestures and force presses.
At the risk of really sounding like a grumpy old fart... This in spades..
I have to laugh whenever there's a new iPhone/Android/Home-automation/Car
or other 'touchscreen' device out and these days it seems required to watch
about a dozen Youtube video's before you even know what new
tap/touch/button/squeeze action you can or have to do now to access some
feature.
Supposedly we didn't want CLI's anymore because they were 'not
intuitive' and
'hard to access for lay persons'. (fair ciriticism..)
... and now we have these devices that often show a pretty picture, but *no*
outward sign or indication about possible inputs/actions you can perform.
It's.. Almost like it's getting as bad as a '$ ' prompt for the
'uninitiated'
For fun, give a heavy iPhone user an Android phone or vice-versa and see
smoke coming out of their ears as they fight with it.. :)
Bye, Arno.