Top 8 Reasons HCI is in its Stone Age

UltimaGuy writes "This Editorial describes 8 reasons why HCI (Human Computer Interaction) is in its stone age. It laments about screen corners, filesystem, GUI Design and also 'spatialness'. "

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Re:And here's the answer of an amarok developer

[interiot]

so why don't any major Desktop Environments exploit the screen corners?

I have a good reason: it's because they are the easiest spots to hit with the mouse.

So require the user to click first. The article mentions this, and mentions that their "Start" Button can be activated this way.

But you know what's weird about Windows XP? You can throw the cursor into the lower-left corner, click, and... nothing. Windows is nanometers from doing the right thing, but still manages to miss it.

Re:computers: still not for lay people

[stonecypher]

It's perfectly intuitive, if you ever bothered to read the manual, even once.

What's that? Can't pull every single answer out of your ass magically? Want something that's literally hundreds of millions of lines of source to be painfully obvious to the least educated or adventurous of users at the drop of a hat?

Too bad. Ain't possible. RTFM.