Power User definition
Power User definition
Posted Feb 18, 2012 0:37 UTC (Sat) by cmccabe (guest, #60281)In reply to: Power User definition by raven667
Parent article: Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design
> I'm guessing that using a mouse on a UI that was designed with
> touch in mind is much easier than going the other way.
Bad guess. There's a lot of touch operations that have no mouse equivalent, like anything using multitouch.
The mouse is a precision instrument, whereas touch is very imprecise.
Users get annoyed when they have to move their mouse a long distance, whereas tapping a different part of the touch screen is easy.
> Have you ever tried a traditional Windows tablet in the last 20
> years? Awful, all sorts of mouse-dependent behavior that doesn't
> work with a touchscreen.
Wow-- it's almost like the two products need different user interfaces. Maybe someone should make a note of that. A lot of companies and open source organizations have sunk a huge amount of time and money into the foolish assumption that tablet UIs are relevant on the desktop, and vice versa.
Posted Feb 18, 2012 6:15 UTC (Sat)
by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
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That's just nonsense. Most of the user-visible changes in Lion and the announce features for Mountain Lion are the transfer of iOS UI elements to the desktop (such as the app launcher or Notification Center) and even whole applications (like Notes, Messaging)
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/02/apple-unleashes...
Posted Feb 18, 2012 10:14 UTC (Sat)
by cmccabe (guest, #60281)
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Posted Feb 18, 2012 18:11 UTC (Sat)
by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
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Power User definition
Power User definition
Power User definition