Pair of Twiggys

js at cimmeri.com js at cimmeri.com
Wed Mar 15 12:19:37 CDT 2017



On 3/15/2017 11:35 AM, Liam Proven via 
cctalk wrote:
> On 15 March 2017 at 14:17, geneb via cctalk<cctalk at classiccmp.org>  wrote:
>> Well hooray for Xerox.  Apple still obtained the concepts from Xerox,
>> regardless of the mechanism.
> Only some and only very basic ones.
>
> Icons for files, the "OK" and "Cancel" buttons, scroll bars, all kinds
> of utterly basic stuff were invented at Apple.
>
>> Yeah, god forbid you confuse the poor user with more than one button.
> Jeez, Gene, can't you find some _new_ nonsense?
>
> This one is quantifiable and measurable. More buttons means more
> cognitive delay.

Maybe cognitive delay is a good thing.   
Separates the wheat from the chaff.

Eg. "God forbid" there be automobiles 
with only one button (start).

- JS.


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