> > it'll be great on touch-screens, but business and home users are not > > going to be using touch for meat-and-potatoes computer usage. > > -- >------------------------ > >Over time your statement will no longer be correct. > >In that we will get better at design of UI than the morph from the old >green screen to what we have currently. > >Sure we will need input devices, but I think that they will change as >well. The lock of the typewriter type of device might break within >the next ten years. > >Today you could Blue tooth to another device, maybe in the very near >future you could use your phone's keypad instead? What if you were at >a display at say a trade show. You walk up and touch it to get to the >input UI and your phone was the keyboard. > >With that in mind I think that Google and M$ are really pushing >forward with the single OS that works in the tablet as well as the >personal computer (phone, tablet, laptop, desktop)
Tiny keyboards suck for productivity. So do keyboards that don't provide tactile feedback that lets you know what keys you're on. And such devices also suck for blind users. These designers keep forgetting that there are millions of people in back offices typing stuff into computers all day long, and the majority of computers are used by them, not people at trade shows or traveling salespeople or whatever. Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
