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Oops to clarify, I meant if children can master iOS 12 (and if iOS 12 on its face would seem complex to people a couple generations ago), then perhaps SciFi int
by newsbinator 8y ago
Oops to clarify, I meant if children can master iOS 12 (and if iOS 12 on its face would seem complex to people a couple generations ago), then perhaps SciFi interfaces that seem ridiculously complex or opaque to us now would in that universe seem intuitive to adults.
Because they would have had decades of familiarity with the building blocks of those interfaces, and the hidden actions that manipulate them.
And because they wouldn't have had other ui experiences to block them.
Like how our parents struggle to learn new user interfaces not because they're necessarily complex, but because they're fighting against past experience.
- simonh 8y agoThat’s reasonable, sure. I have know plenty of people that bemoaned the limitations of GUIs compared to the power and expressivity of command like interfaces. But they learned the command line first. It’s not the most intuitive, but certainly what you become familiar with first can affect your future preferences and ability to accept and take advantage of alternatives.