Re: Beyond Nautilus 1.0



You guys have hit too many of my buttons. You're in for it now. Here
comes Karpinski's book spam:

You like zooming? You have feelings about user friendliness? Icons or no
icons is an issue? You want to get the job done? Read the expert!

In 1984, icons came on in a big way with the introduction of the, then
radically easier to use, Macintosh. Windows, today, is just a vastly
tedious perverted Mac interface. And folks are still engaging in
religious debates over when and how much to use icons. But now the
issues are all addressed in a masterful way by the guy who started the
Macintosh project in the late 70s.

The Humane Interface, by Jef Raskin, is based on some ten years of
reading and thinking about all the scientific evidence developed by the
cognitive psychology folks and others. In a hundred and fifty pages or
so, he lays out the relevant science and shows you how to apply it to
real issues.

But then, in chapter six, he proposes an even more radical solution than
the last time! If that's what you're here for, this is the book for you.

If you read this list, you get a double your money back offer from me.
Get the book. If you don't want to keep it in your library, I will buy
it from you for twice what you had to pay for it. (Nobody has ever taken
me up on that. They buy the book and then want to keep it.)

See also the author's summary at JefRaskin.com and write me about it
when you have read the book. Raskin was influenced by PAD++ which has
evolved into Jazz in Java. It does zooming in a big way, too.

Dick Karpinski  The world's largest leprechaun.  |=|:-}=




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