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Based on this, what might be interesting is a user interface that gives you very restricted options to begin with and then gradually removed those restrictions
by d4nt 16y ago
Based on this, what might be interesting is a user interface that gives you very restricted options to begin with and then gradually removed those restrictions the more you used it.
Having just written that, I realised that games have been doing this for years. Imagine having a DVCS inform you that you've levelled up and can now do cloning.
- BoppreH 16y agoGood idea, but there would have to be cheats, be it for urgent tasks or because of a reinstall.
- windsurfer 16y agoWow. This is bikeshedding to the extreme.
- ohyes 16y agoOr a programming language. We can measure 'level' in pointers. Then we'd have a practical application of the term 'three star programmer.'
- cake 16y agoI think Microsoft tried that with Office (2000 and more ?), they had adaptative menus. Apprently most of the users disliked this feature and it was eventually removed (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jensenh/archive/2006/03/31/565877.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jensenh/archive/2006/03/31/565877.as...)
- bigfudge 16y agoThey did, and it worked great on your own machine after a few weeks. The problem was it made everyone else's machines basically unusable.