UI rules for the Mind and not for an Object Class ;)
Darius Clarke
darius at inglang.com
Wed Jan 15 12:01:17 PST 2003
Hello everyone,
> yet another rule to be learned (amongst too many rules already)
> children very quickly learn what to do in the UI, even with inconsistencies
in the UI
Is there, can there be, should there be a place to collect together these rules
or inconsistency between rules for us adults to learn?
In a wiki web page or a text morph in the Squeak/eToy distribution images
perhaps?
> However, my belief is that the only difficulties
> that should be in a child's learning environment are ones that all of
> us have put there to help the child -- there shouldn't be any
> gratuitous difficulties from bad design
Here, here. As in "The Humane Interface" by Jef Raskin
Summary here: http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Main/HumaneUserInterface
Cheers,
Darius
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