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In the first session, Joe Winchester of IBM is talking about User Interfaces Past Present and Future, Good, bad, and Ugly. GUI metaphor hasn't changed since the Xerox Parc paper-based metaphor. (I don't buy that. Today's interfaces are very different than Parc. ) Winchester says "90% of all computer failures are user error." (This is false. Bad user interfaces cause errors. The fault is in the software, not the user.) Bad user interfaces limit performance of entire system. More...
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