Different histories, different mental images: I map "HCI" to "Handgun Control, Inc." rather than "Human-Computer Interface". It took me several sentences to figure out what the heck was going on!
Yes, some of his points are just due to limited experience with MacOS X and Gnome. Others, like 2 (designing for beginners) are dead on.
I especially appreciated the comment that went "let me find your knife for you" followed by a one-line shell command -- a lot of problems with GUIs go away once you learn how to use the keyboard properly (as many of the comments pointed out).
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Date: 2005-09-08 07:43 am (UTC)I especially appreciated the comment that went "let me find your knife for you" followed by a one-line shell command -- a lot of problems with GUIs go away once you learn how to use the keyboard properly (as many of the comments pointed out).