>I appreciated his complaints, but not his solution. Only a programmer would think that going back to keyboards is a good idea.
Or anybody that has to deal with frequent input work -- anybody at a POS, a factory control center, an air traffic control tower, a ship, a library, and thousands of other such cases.
Those people would very much want to go back to keyboards if they used such an interface, and would very much would resist taking one from them for a mouse based interface.
And most of us are not that alike those people for many of our program uses, we just change between different programs, many of which could be modelled like the programs mentioned above (like TFA describes) and be far easier/faster to use.
That's true and actually that's a good point because I sometimes design software for people who key in stuff at a warehouse. I should ask them if they'd like those features.
It's funny I read the article without thinking I could apply the results at my job!
But going that extra mile is hard. In most shops like mine, what people need is more features and fixes, and elegant UI isn't a high priority. It's not all laziness, there is wisdom in satisficing.
Or anybody that has to deal with frequent input work -- anybody at a POS, a factory control center, an air traffic control tower, a ship, a library, and thousands of other such cases.
Those people would very much want to go back to keyboards if they used such an interface, and would very much would resist taking one from them for a mouse based interface.
And most of us are not that alike those people for many of our program uses, we just change between different programs, many of which could be modelled like the programs mentioned above (like TFA describes) and be far easier/faster to use.