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I agree, and I think GUIs make people more productive. In windows land, people tend to use tools that have GUIs. So everyone uses their mouse.
by lqdc13 11y ago
I agree, and I think GUIs make people more productive.
In windows land, people tend to use tools that have GUIs. So everyone uses their mouse.
- tluyben2 11y agoGUI interaction is more intuitive and thus easier to learn (children learning tablet use without previous instruction for instance) so yes everyone uses their mouse as they do not know better. Most experienced users use either a mix or only keyboard. For things like coding or writing books and papers (and many other uses; I believe it to be the case for most common uses of Photoshop as well); I dare you any day of tĥe week in a contest where you use only GUI without keyboard shortcuts and me on only keyboard for coding and see who is more productive. I think we can calculate from what mouse movements you need it is probably not physically possible for you to win that. Not that that says all as for the general population GUIs feel more productive compared to the effort you need to actually learn to beat that 'natural' productivity they got from nature.
- lqdc13 11y agohttp://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html http://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html VVV quote from the link VVV We’ve done a cool $50 million of R & D on the Apple Human Interface. We discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts: * Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing. * The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.
- tluyben2 11y agoLike the commenters on that article say and like I said: I fully believe this goes for most computer users. I would like to see these stats for experienced coders during a day long coding session. The challenge stands anyway.
- plonh 11y agoTog also believed in research on your actual users, not cargo culting from decades old research in very different systems with very different users.