On 2013-04-25 11:30AM, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: >(Speaking of new hardware, enchantMOON has gotten to the "pre-order" >stage. http://enchantmoon.com/)
Is there anything interesting about that other than that it appears to have Scratch inside? There doesn't seem to be anything on their website other than a video, and from the video, the user interface looks to be horrifyingly bad. - It starts up with what looks like a moon waxing, but when it gets to be a full moon, you find out that it's *not* actually done loading, it's just displaying a moon spinning. If you have a progress bar, it should either represent a fraction of progress or it should just give an indicator that the computer is busy and hasn't crashed and should very clearly *not* look like a fraction of anything. - It seems to have a lot of interface glitz which just slows things down and serves no useful purpose whatever. If I click a button, I don't want to watch a little explosion of growing dots, I just want it to go to the next screen. It might be cute the first eight times, but after that it's just annoying. For serious use, half a second to wait for some stupid animation to play before it does what I tell it to do is at least two or three times too long. - The handwriting recognition is so incredibly slow that at one point the user starts to correct his writing thinking that the system hasn't recognized it at all...if I was going to use it, I'd want to see it be about an order of magnitude faster. Isn't the rule of thumb that ideally things should take less than a tenth of a second, and if they take more than twice that they should show a progress or busy indicator? - Buttons which orbit? Really? That's just incredibly stupid. I don't want to have to read the buttons to figure out which one is which. On a touch-screen device should definitely be able to just *know* where they are and be able to stab the right one without looking. - And this is a trivial thing, but why are these people so totally incompetent that they posted a demo video with two minutes of blank frames at the end? If they're so lazy that they can't be bothered to double-check a four-minute video before they post it, I definitely don't trust them to write software which doesn't suck. --Josh _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
