skills/expertise/experience (was: Re: [thelist] a weird quest ion)

[Steve Cook]

Sorry, couldn't resist this, but the C: indicates the drive one is using and
the > right angle bracket (this is a carat ^) indicates that to the right is
the place to start typing.

I know this was probably intended as a joke example, but even in the most
minimalist interfaces there's good and bad interface design. For instance, I
notice that on the command-line prompt under Win 2000 the default is 
C:\>
showing that one is in the root directory of the C: drive. This expands to
reflect which directory one is in, e.g. 
C:\Temp>

I personally think that designing for the most restricted interfaces gives
some extremely interesting challenges. It's one of the reasons I enjoy WAP,
far from the three rows of text being a restriction I think of them as a
challenge! To be able to provide people with useful information in such a
space requires acute planning. You're not gonna be able to do Flash on a
phone for a while, but once again content is king and making that content
easily available requires great interface planning skills.

</rant> :-)

.steve


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erika Meyer [mailto:erika at seastorm.com]
> Sent: den 18 januari 2001 18:49
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: skills/expertise/experience (was: Re: [thelist] a weird
> question)
<SNIP>
> 
> I mean, sheesh, on my first computer, this was the interface:
> 
> <interface>
> 
> C:>
> 
> </interface>
> 
> (And I wonder: why the carat?  Why not just a colon?)
> GUI design is still a pretty new field.
> 
>