2009/10/29 Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de:
If anybody has ideas on how to avoid misconceptions like above, let's hear them.
A first usability concern you can point at is quite obvious: the place to rename and the place to keep a project are located far from each other. Therefore a lambda user may not see the symbolic connection between the two. Appropriate feedback like bubble tips could help to reduce this cognitive distance, but most kid may not read it. I fell GUI usability with adult and kids may requires different approaches. It seems Sugar approach is to reduce cogntive load with a simpler interface with less menus and icons. Something not exactly followed by the Morphic interface which induce very high cognitive load for kids (many path to follow), but oh well this is another topic.