Big Idea
New big idea… Ok, so I really dig task-centered user interface design, it makes sense to me that design should concentrate on what people really do rather than what designers think they do. Keep it simple people. I like the new task stuff in Windows XP Beta, though the presentation is ugly… I think the new built-in cd burning is a good example of something damn usefull and damn easy to use. I don’t like the stupid boxes in web explorer view, I always ditch those. Same with the thumbnail view, useful, and easy to use.
So anyways… My new big idea is to expand this whole idea and build an entire OS interface around it. These means getting rid of the whole application idea and moving the focus of the UI to the document. Admittedly, I don’t think this is for everyone… But I think it would be a huge leap in usability. It would shorten the cognitive gap people must cross in fitting UI paradigms into their world view.