[FRIAM] sometimes an onion is just an onion...
Frank Wimberly
wimberly3 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 15 14:57:05 EDT 2017
Shall we assume Renee' is Mrs. Glen?
Frank Wimberly
Phone (505) 670-9918
On Jun 15, 2017 12:40 PM, "glen ☣" <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/15/2017 11:23 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> > But as for consumers of some product like Shazam, I can't imagine that
> most have any interest at all in how or why it works.
>
> Excellent! I keep finding nits to pick. 8^) Again, I'm not so sure. I
> had a difficult conversation today with Renee'. She normally doesn't take
> her phone to work because cell phones aren't allowed outside the locker
> room and the battery just drains away hunting for signal anyway. But today
> she had to find a way to record a video (I assume for school). She knows
> the phone can do it because I've done it. But she didn't know how to go
> from stills to video. I tried "Swipe to the right." But that didn't work
> because she thinks "Swipe to the right" means move your finger to the
> right. I meant move your finger to the left so that you can see what's on
> the right side of the 3D object being rendered. In my weirdly configured
> head, I'm manipulating the thing behind the interface, not my finger ... so
> I swipe the image to the right by moving my finger to the left. I'm
> certain my language is wrong, but whatever. We could make the same
> argument for things like Twitter or Slack. What is that icon? What does
> it do? Etc. Of course, people like me just click and see what happens ...
> swipe this way, that way, bang it on the ground, whatever it takes to make
> the thing do something interesting. People like Renee' _want_ to know what
> they're supposed to do. And in that, they want to learn just enough about
> how/why it works so that they can know what they can do and how they can do
> it.
>
> Anyhoo ... I suppose I could have simply said: interfaces aren't as
> operationally closed as we like to assume.
>
>
> --
> ☣ glen
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