[IAEP] Proposal for OUI :- an Obvious User Interface

2012-09-06 Thread David Brown
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Design_Team/Proposals#Proposal_for_.22OUI.22_:-_an_Obvious_User_Interface ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] what will you learn/do at Stanford?

2012-09-12 Thread David Brown
this, if anyone cares to implement it: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Design_Team/Proposals david brown, PhD (a long time ago in a far-away place) http://sites.google.com/site/djhbrown2/home ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project

[IAEP] evolution or revolution? .....android+sugar+doors = oui?

2012-09-12 Thread David Brown
i see that olpc is responding to consumer demand and putting android as well as sugar on new xo3 machines. perhaps this will become gladiatorial combat in which one will die, or perhaps it is an opportunity for conjugation by their respective developers to give birth to a new generation of

[IAEP] sugar, android,... oui? ....ou non!! ...

2012-09-13 Thread David Brown
I am curious as to the specific features of Android that David finds compelling. a. i believe it has Google behind it with a large development team, but it's also open source to encourage new apps from outside (sugar could be one of those apps, which is what i think Scott has in mind...) b. i

Re: [IAEP] My problem with your OUI is that I can't see what problem it is solving.

2012-09-15 Thread David Brown
as i started sketching out a design of something a child could use with no training and no need for a guru Help Desk by the side, i realised that what i had would be equally useful for general use by anyone. so i changed its name to OUI (Obvious User Interface) - it uses the metaphor of a house