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Guis. Pictures. A picture is worth 1000 words. Why use 1000 words to express something when one or two will do?
by bregma 7y ago
Guis. Pictures. A picture is worth 1000 words. Why use 1000 words to express something when one or two will do?
- anthk 7y agoWhy use a picture when you can tell the computer what to do, such as going out to the café while the computer is either number crunching/photo editing with ImageMagick by itself?
- rocqua 7y agoBecause reflowing 1000 words is a lot simpler that designing a general method for conveying your message on any given aspect ratio, resolution and size. Because text is a lot more portable across platforms. Because interacting with text is a lot easier to automate. And extracting information from text automatically is easy whilst extracting it automatically from a picture is very difficult. GUIs are great for discoverability, and complex long ineractive sessions. But they also have downsides.
- anthk 7y agoTry guessing what an icon does over a toolbar of 20-30 objects.