Anecdotes like yours are one of the main reasons I read HN. Thanks for sharing. Y'welcome. Have another from the same session of teacher training. It's one I t

Anecdotes like yours are one of the main reasons I read HN. Thanks for sharing. Y'welcome. Have another from the same session of teacher training. It's one I trot out while wearing my UX hat when folk talk about 'intuitive' interfaces. This was late eighties remember. In the UK too. Mice were not common. Almost everybody we put down in front of one had problems initially. This was often the first time these folk had been in front of a computer - let alone one with a mouse. In one case I had to take the mouse apart (look here's this ball - it moves against these rollers - they send the x/y changes to the computer, that moves the little arrow on the screen) before the teacher 'got it'. Intuitive? Ain't no such thing ;-)