I would have going in, but it seems obvious in retrospect. #1 Remember, designers, these aren't people who know who or what or when an IRC is. #2 To even get

I would have going in, but it seems obvious in retrospect. #1 Remember, designers, these aren't people who know who or what or when an IRC is. #2 To even get going, you have to be able to mentally model the chat entry as a command line, and have an intuitive understanding of a slash command. #3 The conceit was there were 3 laptop stations, one for Dall-E, one for Midjourney, one for Imagen, and they were rotating stations every couple of minutes. Adding time pressure didn't help. Another way to think about it, real dialogue we had: wait, I'm at a chat app...okay where you chat, you want me to type slash...okay then imagine...wait whoa what was the menu that popped up after slash...wait whoa why did it go away...okay slash, and what do i type after that?...okay, imagine...wait, no space? okay '/imagine'...wait can I just load Dalle-E that was easier?