Comments on: Quick mind interface thoughts http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/06/23/quick-mind-interface-thoughts It's all spinning wheels and self-doubt until the first pot of coffee. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:23:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha By: Chris Dent http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/06/23/quick-mind-interface-thoughts/comment-page-1#comment-1719 Chris Dent Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=656#comment-1719 <p>"There’s a difference between “ease of use” and “ease of adoption”, isn’t there? Think vi versus MS Word. Maybe Doug Engelbart versus Jabob Nielsen? More to think about this."</p> <p>Absolutely. By ease adoption do you mean the ease with which it is possible to use something the first time around. That's more traditionally called ease of learning. Adoption is usually saved in the literature for uptake of the technology in whatever the audience happens to be.</p> <p>There's a mythical sweet spot where ease of use and ease of learning are nicely balanced. I haven't seen it yet.</p> “There’s a difference between “ease of use” and “ease of adoption”, isn’t there? Think vi versus MS Word. Maybe Doug Engelbart versus Jabob Nielsen? More to think about this.”

Absolutely. By ease adoption do you mean the ease with which it is possible to use something the first time around. That’s more traditionally called ease of learning. Adoption is usually saved in the literature for uptake of the technology in whatever the audience happens to be.

There’s a mythical sweet spot where ease of use and ease of learning are nicely balanced. I haven’t seen it yet.

]]> By: Bill Seitz http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/06/23/quick-mind-interface-thoughts/comment-page-1#comment-1720 Bill Seitz Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=656#comment-1720 <p>When I hear about Morse code as I/O I think of Cryptonomicon where Randy enters some case by hitting his space bar in Morse, and gets back his final decrypted message by having it output to his laptop near-keyboard LEDs.</p> <p>http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/CryptoNomicon</p> When I hear about Morse code as I/O I think of Cryptonomicon where Randy enters some case by hitting his space bar in Morse, and gets back his final decrypted message by having it output to his laptop near-keyboard LEDs.

http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/CryptoNomicon

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