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Penguin Petes Blog - Interface Obsession Syndrome

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Who has Interface Obsession Syndrome? The computing world, thats who. All of it: designers, users, open source software, proprietary software, web designers, web surfers. Everybody. Its a disease.

, I boldly proclaimed (using my proclaiming voice, which makes the font bold and a size larger), There is not a single thing wrong with a single FOSS programs user interface, anywhere, period. And I expected to get some reactions, and I did, and Im ready to explain that line.

Ill tell you right now: youre going to disagree with me. This will be one more of those times when you all wonder if Ive gone off my rocker, and I will have to explain it again and again, and then a few more readers each time will gradually pick up the idea, until Ive reached all that I can reach. But what the hey, you probably needed the intellectual exercise anyway. Here goes nothing:

(1) Before there were computers, before there was technology, there was just humans and nature.

(2) Nature does not listen to humans complain about lousy interface design. It just says here you go and we have to put up with it. Imagine all the departments we humans have had to adapt to, without control over the interface: eating, elimination, sex, communication, and dealing with other animals. Sex alone has such a contrived interface, that half of us have to fumble around and even after years of practice we wonder if we have it right. Eating, unless were talking about raw fruits and vegetables, requires cooking, something none of us are born knowing how to do. Our first acquaintance with a non-intuitive interface as children is being toilet-trained.

The only intuitive interface is the nipple. After that its all learned. - variously attributed

(3) Then we started making tools and advancing our technology. Making fire is another thing that is non-intuitive. Nature does not install turn on fire buttons in the world. We had to figure it out. Stone clubs and knives are limited by their nature - we cannot tweak the interface too much; it needs a handle. The interface to hand tools do not come with instructions and a drop-down help menu. And so on and so forth up through the industrial age.

Those early carmakers were simply lucky, in that they could dream up whatever interface was best suited to the task of driving an automobile, and people would learn it. -

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