On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 05:26 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
I realize it would be an uphill battle and likely without victory. Worth
pursuing, or better off left as a thought experiment? ;)
I think it's certainly futile for it to be like an RFC or ISO standard, but perhaps it could gain a cult following?
I was just reading your interview in revJournal, Richard. There should be a universal icon and hotkey for "progressive discloser". Click the icon and the app does an onion-skin animation and voila there is your advanced user view. Click the icon again and voila there is your super-user view!
Just last night I watched my 3 year old learn to use, pretty much intuitively, a "conveyor belt" widget in a game, that had right and left arrow-triangles for scrolling the conveyor belt. Pretty cool.
There is a cognitive basis for these things! Books that might be relevant
Metapatterns / Across Space, Time and Mind by Tyler Volk
Metaphors We Live By by Lakoff and Johnson
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things / What Categories Reveal about the Mind
by Lakoff
Alex Rice, Software Developer Architectural Research Consultants, Inc. http://ARCplanning.com
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