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From: ar4@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Piper Keairnes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Intuitive...
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Date: 19 Sep 90 00:57:52 GMT
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macq@miguel.llnl.gov (Don MacQueen) writes:

>Well, actually, I don't believe the Mac is used intuitively at all. 
>It's just that many things we want to do with it are easy to remember,
>or analagous to something that is easy to remember.

For that matter, I don't think that there has been a computer yet that is
truely intuitive the FIRST time you use it, for that to be true it probably
wouldn't have a keyboard/mouse/etc... it would have voice recognition and it
would be artificially intelligent. It would be robotic and might even cook
you dinner.

However, when a computer is EASY to use and EASY to remember and once you
have a feel for the interface and it is easy to predict how things will/should
be done, then the computer BECOMES intuitive to the user. The quicker that
process is, the more "intuitive" I would say the computer is.

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