Team, The Mythical Man-Finger
http://lenz.unl.edu/2011/07/25/the-mythical-man-finger.html Lets learn Bash Scripting. :) ------ Quote :- the command line is: faster, easier to understand, easier to integrate, more scalable, more portable, more sustainable, more consistent, and many, many times more flexible than even the most well-thought-out graphical apps. ----- The GUI was, of course, about graphical applications, but it was more fundamentally about the mouse. The mouse essentially replaced language with the index finger. If you wanted to do something, you pointed at it. -------- The idea that language is for power users and pictures and index fingers are for those poor besotted fools who just want toast in the morning is an extremely retrograde idea from which we should strive to emancipate ourselves. The problem with the user categorization narrative, is that it uses “it just works” as a cover for saying “people aren’t capable” – for implying that millions of natural language speakers would be too intimidated by languages thousands of orders of magnitude smaller than the ones they use effortlessly every single day. It imagines that if we can find the right user-interface “metaphor,” everything will click. ---------- What I find distressing about modern user interface design, is not that it strives to create better metaphors, but that it has radically limited itself to a very constrained set of ideas about what is possible. Whatever system we’re designing, we design within the realm of pictures and index fingers. We argue endlessly over color, and screen regions, and steps, and flow, but the ground truth of our efforts doesn’t change. Ideas about using more than one finger (“gestures!”) or using your whole body (“Kinect!”) are greeted as thunderous breakthroughs. Think of the possibilities! -- Malaysia Open Source Software Conference 2011 MOSC2011 http://www.mosc.my/ Malaysia Open Source Conference 2012 (MOSC2012) http://portal.mosc.my/ LinuxMalaysia Network http://www.facebook.com/Bukan.Sekadar.Internet.Sahaja Harisfazillah Jamel -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information OSDC.my Discussion Group In Facebook http://www.facebook.com/groups/osdcmalaysia/ Malaysia Open Source Conference 2012 MOSC2012 http://portal.mosc.my/
