The part about 30boxes and Google Calendar's quick add features brings the point together: "The quick-add feature doesn't even really feel like an interface, wh

The part about 30boxes and Google Calendar's quick add features brings the point together: "The quick-add feature doesn't even really feel like an interface, which is the highest compliment an interface can get: the better an interface is, the less it's noticed." Clearly many tasks will be more efficient if you can convince people to type instead of clicking around a bunch. The trick is setting it up in such a way that what they have to type is completely intuitive. Almost as if they are typing out what they want done in natural language.