Re:Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe fo...
by al_borland on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @09:07PM
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I’ve always wondered about this. I get that a keyboard driven text interface can be extremely fast for an experienced user. However, when I think about a lot of the places I see them, they are retail jobs with what I can only assume is high turnover. The text interface has to have a much higher learning curve, which I would think would only pay off for jobs people work in for a long time.
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Re:Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe fo...
by toast0 on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @12:05AM
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Some of these jobs you simply need to be fast or find something else to do. When you're new, your supervisor is near by, and you learn how to do the easy things, and ask the super for help with exceptions.
If you spend a couple 8 hour days doing returns or checking people into flights or whatever, you'll get good at the regular stuff and the usual exceptions. Or you won't and maybe there's something else you can do.
Most of the time, the real tricks are knowing how to move to the other fields when it's not obviously tab, and what the button is to get into the exception menu. And then learning the layouts to scan the page for what you need.
On a mouse driven system you can usually click into the fields you need, but if you need to, it's usually gonna be slow.