RE: For a GUI that is easier to use

["Poletti, Don" <don poletti comverse-in com>]

This sounds a lot like openDoc that apple got off the 
ground and then dropped (well to be fair IBM dropped
windose support first).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Cullis [mailto:kevincu orci com]
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 10:06 AM
> To: adam kramer
> Cc: Robert Pang; gnome-gui-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: For a GUI that is easier to use
> 
> 
> I agree as well.  Just think of the integration between programs which
> adopt a similar strategy, we might be able to save some time in
> accomplishing our work.  Not a bad thought, great idea!!
> 
> Kevin
> 
> adam kramer wrote:
> > 
> >  i agree with robert on designing the ui around tasks. I 
> have just been
> > listening in so far, but I'd like to point everyone to a 
> really helpful
> > shareware book on UI design, TASK-CENTERED USER INTERFACE DESIGN by
> > Clayton Lewis and John Rieman. You can download at:
> > ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/distribs/clewis/HCI-Design-Book/
> > 
> > -ak.
> > 
> >  > To put it in simpler terms, I wish the GUI of a
> > > computer to be "task-oriented" instead of
> > > "program-oriented". A user-interface should presents
> > > to the users the "what's" (what the computer is
> > > capable of doing) instead of the "how's" (how to do
> > > such things). I envision that such a system will have
> > > the system menus (namely the "Start" menu in Windows,
> > > or the main menu in "Gnome") to be full of verbs
> > > instead of nouns. We can have a "Check" menu with
> > > "E-mail" and "Stock-quote" sub-menus, "Write" menu
> > > with "E-mail" and "Check" sub-menus, "Buy" menu with
> > > sub-menus with all the things you can buy. Also,
> > > imagine that installing software on a computer is
> > > really installing new capabilities of a computer
> > > (teaching the computer new tricks). I care more for
> > > what a computer can do and less for what software a
> > > computer has.
> 
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