Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 28th Nov 2006 13:52 UTC
The OLPC's interface is simply way too complicated. I just read through the human interface guidelines for the project; and by god, I got lost after only a few paragraphs. How are kids supposed to learn all this? Read on for my thoughts.
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2005-06-29
Yea, it's totally stupid. Just cause these kids are poor doesn't make them stupid.
This is exactly what I was afraid OLPC would have been if it'd run on Windows: A crippled platform that only allows people to learn its own paradigms and not useful things in using other software (the software of the future).
If you give the kids a box, some cds, and reading material in their language they'll figure it out. They're not stupid. Heck, they might even do it without the reading materials if you explain typing and that the cd contains information for the computer to use.