An interesting follow up to my previous 2 posts on usability is this site: www.dontclick.it, which removes clicking from the interface entirely. Feels very slick, although I’m not sure about overall usability.
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thats quite interesting.
It punishes you with a 10 second timeout for clicking,very strange,but also very good.Its a nice idea,ill give it that
Hmmm… not too sure about that one. I have this thing, call it an illness, but I have this feeling that the GUI is a very subtle lie which misrepresents the manner in which the computer really operates. I do use a GUI, but really just out of necessity (framebuffer video playback is ugly and not everything can be read with links).
In such an environment, where everything is a creepy little symbol representing something tangible which in normal circumstances (read: plain text) I would understand, the click is kind of grounding for me. It’s the only thing which exists solely in this GUI world so it’s not a representation of something real in the text world. Selecting a file, following a link… this is a real thing to me. It’s not a little picture of a spanner which is supposed to tell me “this is the same thing as vi and /etc/*” or a weird menu I have to follow that ends up just issuing a command I could have typed in the first place. Faster.
My, oh my… I sure do talk a lot of rubbish in the early afternoon. What am I doing here anyway? I have a massive hangover and haven’t had that big glass of ice water I promised meself yet! * hits the kitchen