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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Because whatever OS they move onto after that will use the "normal" pardigm, Gnome, KDE, Windows, OS X, whatever, and they'll fall behind other people in trying to do thier tasks/jobs/assignments until they catch up. Instead of shackling them to a UI that is flawed, you are creating a class of people who don't understand the current and highly relevant UI. It seems like it is designed to hold the target audience back, not help them move ahead