On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 02:06 -0700, UNIX admin wrote: > My point is, quite simply, if we dumb everything down, once we're > gone, the knowledge and experience might very well be lost. Forever.
As long as there's one person who still needs to make use of that knowledge and experience, it won't get lost. If there's nobody, and the world is functioning just fine with dumbed-down interfaces, then maybe we were just over-complicating things in the first place :) Antoine de Saint-Exupery said, "perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away"-- or, in more modern usability parlance, "the best UI is no UI". IMHO, the closer we get to that point, the *more* talented computer scientists are required to figure out and implement the increasingly complex hardware and software systems behind those simpler UIs, to compensate for the reduced reliance on traditional user input methods. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
