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If you think this is good interface design I suggest you watch someone use a real system. Something like an old bloomberg terminal or those DOS stock keeping sy
by anotherhue 5y ago
If you think this is good interface design I suggest you watch someone use a real system. Something like an old bloomberg terminal or those DOS stock keeping systems still kicking around some travel agents / department stores.
I'll take ugly and smart over the reverse any day.
- kossTKR 5y agoInteresting. Is there a video of how such an oldschool department store system works? I remember clerks looking proficient clicking away behind the desk in the 90's compared to the extremely slow use of touchscreens these days.
- anotherhue 5y agoHere's one https://youtu.be/ql4qL1L-R6E?t=358 https://youtu.be/ql4qL1L-R6E?t=358
- ptaffs 5y agoHere's a training video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enJBk8TKV9Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enJBk8TKV9Q) for creating CICS Screens, which are the type of thing I think the poster was referencing. My first job was writing CICS CoBOL. There was a steep learning curve, like vim, but the users would remember the transaction/workflow codes, usually 4 character abbreviations, which would be keyed somewhere on the screen, the map/form would open and they user would tab and cursor until they press some form of submit, then then next screen in the workflow would open. The users would learn which codes took them to the screen they needed and became very fast. These were all text screens, normally 3270, with no mouse. And most often had excellent mechanical keyboards.