Re:Of Modes and Men (2005)
by cmroanirgo on Friday February 21, 2020 @02:23AM
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Lol. I didn't realise I wasn't technical - but then again my background's only in electronics thru 3d game dev & modelling (90's) thru finance thru embedded. I should probably quit.
Also from the article:
> “I really didn’t believe in it,” he said. “I thought cursor keys were much better. We literally took people off the streets who had never seen a computer. In three or four minutes they were happily editing away using cursor keys. At that point I was going to show them the mouse and prove that they could select text faster than with the cursor keys. Then I was going to show that they didn’t like it.
“It backfired.
Just because he thought a way was the way, Mr Tesler was willing to correct himself of his presuppositions based on real world testing.
Also from the article:
> “I really didn’t believe in it,” he said. “I thought cursor keys were much better. We literally took people off the streets who had never seen a computer. In three or four minutes they were happily editing away using cursor keys. At that point I was going to show them the mouse and prove that they could select text faster than with the cursor keys. Then I was going to show that they didn’t like it.
“It backfired.
Just because he thought a way was the way, Mr Tesler was willing to correct himself of his presuppositions based on real world testing.