[IxDA Discuss] "Interface-Free" Interface

[Juan Lanus]

On 12/6/06, Miguel Gonzalez <maglez at btinternet.com> wrote:

>  applications that won't comfort a power user that needs most features up-front.
You are the only one I've seen talking about driving a workstatio for,
say, software dev, or stats analisys, using a touch screen.
It would be like preparing mayonnaise with a golf club. It migh hurt
your shoulder too.

The point is that there are successful touch screen implementations
for the appropriate application properly designed. And nobody gets
hurt.
As can be seen in http://www.positivesystems.com/tps121v.htm

The type of applications seen to be of the kind that clients in a row
choose products or services from a limited set, as for example in fast
food places like Burger King.
The (touch) screen is used by the designer as a
software-reconfigurable keyboard, like the optimus kb
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/

The apps seem to display the same stuff all the time, as appropriate
for a fast food restaurant, but it's the application who has the last
word.
We as application desigers, we are who will say what, where and how
will happen. Including the position of the screen, the visual
feedback, the size of the buttons, etc. And I'm not talking about the
"you are here" kiosk in the shopping mall but real applications for to
manage transactions bu the thousands with productivity.
What I mean is that it's not that the tauoch screen is bad because it
produces back ache. It depends on the design of the application and
the freedom of mind of the designers.

As always is.
--
Juan