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Overdoing the interface metaphor

marco:

DVD players don’t make fake whirring noises for five minutes before letting you eject a disc to simulate rewinding. Similarly, nobody should need to perform a full-width swipe gesture and wait two seconds for their fake page to turn in their fake book, and nobody should need to click the fake Clear button and start their calculation over because their fake calculator only has a one-line, non-editable fake LCD.

Excellent post by Marco.

Reblogged 1 year ago from marco
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    Marco.org: Overdoing
  3. springmilk reblogged this from marco and added:
    Absolutely brilliant discussion
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    informed by reality,
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    interface metaphor
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    recently finished reading You Are Not...Gadget by Jaron Lanier. It is
  9. jmking reblogged this from marco and added:
    an excellent post...instituting metaphors...software. While...
  10. therealadam reblogged this from marco and added:
    Personal pet peeve: apps...real world. Marco’s thoughts
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  13. drauh reblogged this from marco and added:
    exactly why, when I need...run bc, or Python...complicated...