Linked by Mayuresh Walke on Thu 21st Apr 2005 08:01 UTC
What's the best way to: a. Improve usability in software applications? b. Review usability of existing software? c. Generate, encourage and review new ideas on software UI design? d. Make all this research work freely available to everyone (open source, proprietary, etc.)? e. Connect with all developer groups and individuals out there to share this work with them? Read more to find out.
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I almost think the "Humane Environment" could have used the tools of Emacs and one of the window managers (based on Lisp to help emacs in X11). The problem though is efficiency that is required of being able to zoom out or in, and move in any direction over a billboard of media like pictures, documents, and still's of video. Lisp, although extensible, is not that efficient in space or processing time. Python looks like it can be compiled to a point better than other interpeted languages due to it's popularity. I personally have found ruby most intuitive, but now im rambling. There used to be a demo on Jef Raskin's homepage. The sourceforge page is:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/humane/