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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What about when things go wrong? GUI's can be more useful, and also what about people with certain disabilities, or even children.
Children like colours and graphics, I think there is a paper at Imperial college, where a student designed a child like interface in Flash, to sit on top of Windows. Her research was to make the desktop more interesting for kids.
And it proved a hit, with the local primary school over there.
By the way this was before XP, came out and my little bro prefers the big, blue interface that comes with XP!! I prefer the Win2k interface...