Shall we assume Renee' is Mrs. Glen? Frank Wimberly Phone (505) 670-9918
On Jun 15, 2017 12:40 PM, "glen ☣" <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/15/2017 11:23 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > But as for consumers of some product like Shazam, I can't imagine that > most have any interest at all in how or why it works. > > Excellent! I keep finding nits to pick. 8^) Again, I'm not so sure. I > had a difficult conversation today with Renee'. She normally doesn't take > her phone to work because cell phones aren't allowed outside the locker > room and the battery just drains away hunting for signal anyway. But today > she had to find a way to record a video (I assume for school). She knows > the phone can do it because I've done it. But she didn't know how to go > from stills to video. I tried "Swipe to the right." But that didn't work > because she thinks "Swipe to the right" means move your finger to the > right. I meant move your finger to the left so that you can see what's on > the right side of the 3D object being rendered. In my weirdly configured > head, I'm manipulating the thing behind the interface, not my finger ... so > I swipe the image to the right by moving my finger to the left. I'm > certain my language is wrong, but whatever. We could make the same > argument for things like Twitter or Slack. What is that icon? What does > it do? Etc. Of course, people like me just click and see what happens ... > swipe this way, that way, bang it on the ground, whatever it takes to make > the thing do something interesting. People like Renee' _want_ to know what > they're supposed to do. And in that, they want to learn just enough about > how/why it works so that they can know what they can do and how they can do > it. > > Anyhoo ... I suppose I could have simply said: interfaces aren't as > operationally closed as we like to assume. > > > -- > ☣ glen > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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