Yup. Certainly your opinion goes along the conventional wisdom. (It is not Scratch but their tile-based scripting system inspired by Scratch.)
I have my own share of doubts and wonder how much improvement they manage to put since January, when we saw a prototype working. But it is commendable that they make hardware and customized OS and drivers just to support a single idea they want, which is to have a good response for hand drawing and a customizable platform by the end-user. An they did manage to start selling it. I'd say "let us see". On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Josh Grams <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc -- -- Yoshiki _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
