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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [9fans] User Interface
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 23:01:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002f01c129bb$38fc3340$3cf7c6d4@SOMA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010820150226.534D619A45@mail.cse.psu.edu>

> maybe just further support for the nipple claim? the nipple's intuitive, as
> you say most infants have the suck instinct, but maybe it's the breast that's
> problematic? if we can't move even _that_ far past the nipple, how do we
> expect to come up with an intuitive GUI? ☺

it may well be instinctive but that discounts implementation problems.

> i'd say that perhaps while the Mac interface was designed to reduce time to
> usability, ...

designed to reduce the time before defenestration (sp?) i'd say.

all stolen from PARC and tragically implemented.




  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-20 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-20 15:02 anothy
2001-08-20 21:01 ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
2001-08-20 21:10 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-22 21:25 ` Matthew Hannigan
2001-08-23  2:24   ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-23 15:04     ` Dan Cross
2001-08-23 20:17       ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-23 21:35         ` Dan Cross
2001-08-23 21:49           ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-24 13:04         ` David Lukes
2001-08-23 20:17       ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-23 20:17       ` Boyd Roberts
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-08-20 16:25 Re[2]: " anothy
2001-08-20 15:28 Russ Cox
2001-08-15 15:56 Scott Schwartz
2001-08-15 12:56 forsyth
2001-08-15 12:56 forsyth
2001-08-15  5:07 David Gordon Hogan
2001-08-15 17:15 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-14 17:13 anothy
2001-08-14 17:24 ` Re[2]: " Matt
2001-08-17  8:48   ` Chet Ramey
2001-08-14 13:15 John Murdie
2001-08-14 14:11 ` Re[2]: " Matt
2001-08-14 10:27 Lucio De Re
2001-08-14 12:45 ` pac
2001-08-15  8:34   ` Eric de Redelijkheid
2001-08-15 10:29     ` Re[2]: " Matt
     [not found]   ` <200108151619.MAA07420@augusta.math.psu.edu>
2001-08-16  8:28     ` Eric de Redelijkheid
2001-08-16 10:26       ` Re[2]: " Matt
2001-08-16 11:10       ` Matt

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