Similarly, when GUI's came out, the command line people said the old
way was better.
Are you trying to tell me it isn't? ;-)
I guess my bottom line is that more powerful tools for the designer is
never a bad thing. At the end of the day bad designers will be
punished, and good designers will be rewarded. You cant blame the
hammer, you must blame the carpenter.
Unfortunately, more often than not, bad design is being praised (because
it's "new", even though it's not, and "pretty", even though it often isn't)
and good design is being ignored or denigrated as "old" and "boring".
I used a mouse on my C64 with a GEOS desktop back in '86 and thought it
was the coolest thing since sliced bread. Unfortunately, the point-and-click
paradigm hasn't been improved much in intervening years. The web isn't what
I would call a huge regression, but it certainly hasn't pushed usability
forward much.
ryanm
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