Re: UI design [was Owen Taylor's paper]

John wrote:
> On Thursday 19 September 2002 21:54, Thomas Dodd wrote:
> 
>>>I will say it. It's bad because it's different from everything else.
>>It sounds like lazyness to me.
> Think of the cost of educating 50 000 or so users. And that's just for one 
> business.

I wouldn't want someone working for me that I would
have to "educate" to read the dialogs on the screen.

Same for "training" on an applications "use".
I've been forced to go to few of those (like
using Word or Excel). And al they ever teach
is stuff I already knew, and any half brained
person could figure out.

That was the point of a GUI. You had menus and dialogs
to control the app. Now you can point-N-click
instead of remembering 50 key combos or commands.
If you need training for basic application usage,
you would not work for me. Go to a night school
class, then come see me. Even my 55 year old
mother could figure out how to use a GUI. She's
no expert, but she didn't need "training" to figure
out Netscape-3.x for web browsing and email, or
WordPerfect to write letters. Once I convinced her
to "look around", she's started using PhotoShop
for photo restoration. She's never had any training.

	-Thomas