Linked by Richard Wareham on Mon 8th Mar 2004 20:49 UTC
This essay describes the surprising results of a brief trial with a group of new computer users about the relative ease of the command line interface versus the GUIs now omnipresent in computer interfaces. It comes from practical experience I have of teaching computing to complete beginners or newbies as computer power-users often term them.
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>Interesting, and perhaps even true. The article doesn't
>compare with users that use their computer creativily.
writing is not a creative use?
but yes, when you draw it is useful to see the drawing.
>music 'pages' or with audio processing, a visual >representation of a synth (input/output/connectors).
well, i rather use a real synth with real knobs than hit virtual ones one at a time with mouse..
>but actually *USING* software requires a GUI, because
>it works faster, and you need a customisable workflow.
depends on the software.
renaming two thousand frames of animation is pretty slow with gui.