Comments on: Ubiquity http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2008/09/ubiquity.php From Semantic Web to Web of Data Mon, 23 May 2011 13:28:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: drewp http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2008/09/ubiquity.php/comment-page-1#comment-5828 drewp Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:10:43 +0000 http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2008/09/ubiquity.php#comment-5828 I'm not as moved as you are regarding gui menus vs CLI. Instead of bouncing back and forth between them in our interaction designs, I think we'll get some real rewards when they're combined. If every time I did something the gui way, my computer told me its sentence for that command, then at my leisure I could start using the computer-ese sentences instead. I'm turned off by the ubiquity hype that's all "command line is the new GUI, look how fast this is". What I think is interesting about ubiquity is that many of the commands are eagerly evaluated, and people are going to get a taste of how helpful that is. If there are 4 ways to interpret my poorly-specified command, and it's harmless to try them, just run them all while I'm still typing! "Doing" the correct action is now a matter of pointing my eyes at the right result. I think that's big. I’m not as moved as you are regarding gui menus vs CLI. Instead of bouncing back and forth between them in our interaction designs, I think we’ll get some real rewards when they’re combined. If every time I did something the gui way, my computer told me its sentence for that command, then at my leisure I could start using the computer-ese sentences instead.

I’m turned off by the ubiquity hype that’s all “command line is the new GUI, look how fast this is”. What I think is interesting about ubiquity is that many of the commands are eagerly evaluated, and people are going to get a taste of how helpful that is. If there are 4 ways to interpret my poorly-specified command, and it’s harmless to try them, just run them all while I’m still typing! “Doing” the correct action is now a matter of pointing my eyes at the right result. I think that’s big.

]]> By: OneBigWeb » Blog Archive » Mozilla Lab’s Ubiquity, Adaptive Blue and Linked Data http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2008/09/ubiquity.php/comment-page-1#comment-5807 OneBigWeb » Blog Archive » Mozilla Lab’s Ubiquity, Adaptive Blue and Linked Data Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:39:31 +0000 http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2008/09/ubiquity.php#comment-5807 [...] specifically this kind of functionality that has got the LinkedData folks pretty excited. Zach Beauvais blogged about it on the Nodalities blog and so has Kingsley Idehen. The idea is that when the data [...] [...] specifically this kind of functionality that has got the LinkedData folks pretty excited. Zach Beauvais blogged about it on the Nodalities blog and so has Kingsley Idehen. The idea is that when the data [...]

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