Sunday, March 18th, 2007
The Linux community is often accused of being poor at catering to non-expert users, but this is a misdiagnoses. Contrary to myth, the community is not full of old Unix beards demanding the rest of us master perl before they give the rest of us the time of day. Surely, ...
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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
Here's the first of a series of posts I'll write about interfaces.
The use of icons in GUI's is usually a misapplication of the truism that, 'simply having users point at the very thing they want is the simplest and most intuitive kind of selection'. The problems are that:
Pictographs do not ...
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