(Moved to Chat) When cars first came out anyone driving one had to be an amateur mechanic. Now I can't even find the spark plugs on our car, to my surprise when I was going to change them. The same thing is happening to computing. The issue now is not how to solve a problem, but how to present the problem to the user. It's sort of an "ugly phase" we are going through on the interface to the user. We have to try every neat tool available in our presentation. To the point that at first glance the application looks great, until you try to do something off beat.
I will never forget a presentation IBM made on a great new keyboard they just came out with. Management at the front of the audience was shaking their heads in excitement as to all the things it would do. Then I glanced to the back of the room where the data entry people were slumped down in their chairs shaking their heads. 2011/9/4 Björn Helgason <[email protected]> > It looks like movies are going the same way as programming. > Yesterday there was a showing of a brand new James Bond movie. > I did not have time for it so I taped it to look at it some time in the > future. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
