quartz/content/notes/direct-manipulation-video.md
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e.g., better measuring cup

ford qquote about faster horse

four insights

  • both transit and cookware simply asking doesn't work
  • find out by going into the field
  • bring protoypes with you
  • listen to peoples own designs

two steps each has success or failure

  • action --> gulf of execution
  • evaluating the outcome --> gulf of evaluation

6 questions

  • determine the function
  • tell what actions
  • determine actual action
  • perform the actions
  • tell what state
  • mapping from system state and interpretation

to reduce gulfs

  • visibility (perciebves affordances or signifiers)
  • feedback
  • consistency (standards)
  • non-destructive operations (undo/redo)
  • discoverability (operations discovers by exploration)
  • reliability

e.g., vending machine example

Command line vs GUI

e.g., moving a file gui - have continuous feedback cmd - have to know syntax, almost no feedback

direct manipulation

  • immdediate feedback
  • continuous represntations of objects
  • leverage metaphor (take advangates of pre-existing knowledge)

successful indirection. cmd provides generalisation

eye to the future: gestures

  • solutions to menu creep?
  • even more direct?