8 Apr
2009
8 Apr
'09
5:06 p.m.
Traditional UI's aim to be intuitive to non-experts and, in doing so, completely forget to provide the functionality that is needed for efficient computer use once one is beyond the learning stage.
I have to disagree here. What we define as "intuition" is often just some kind of "trained knowledge": People have to learn how to use the first GUI, regardless of how it works. In the future they expect other GUIs to work in the same way, and because they don't need to think about it, they consider it to be "intuitive". This is a rather complex topic and might better be branched of into another thread.
Interesting point. In that case, however, it is even less valuable to stay close to the philosophy of traditional UI's. Cheers, Norbert