Building a better mouse.
Given the growing technical power of personal computers, it is much easier for today's programmers to provide users with a friendlier interface, says cyberjournalist Steven Johnson. In his new book, Interface Culture, Johnson argues that today's typical mouse-and-icon desktop interface, which is it...
| Publicado en: | Futurist Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 14 - 16 |
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World Future Society
May 1998
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| Sumario: | Given the growing technical power of personal computers, it is much easier for today's programmers to provide users with a friendlier interface, says cyberjournalist Steven Johnson. In his new book, Interface Culture, Johnson argues that today's typical mouse-and-icon desktop interface, which is itself a direct response to the problems users encountered with the DOS command-line interface, could be improved. A number of such improvements are briefly discussed. |
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