I was thinking about how interface is influenced by the needs of people who write interfaces. At Microsoft, it is dead easy to get two monitors. Even for tech writers. Even for contract tech writers ( Read more... )

Evidently, there are a non-zero number of people touch-typing on their phone keyboards. Huh. In that case, I will pull back my argument to the overall (unwinable) argument against qwerty and for dvorak ( Read more... )

It makes ZERO sense to have a QWERTY keyboard on something that has a totally different typing methodology. Teeny full keyboards should not be QWERTY. They should be alphabetical, as pretty much everyone can find things that way. Holding on to a keyboard layout only makes sense because it benefits touch-typists, and even quasi-touchers. The QWERTY ( Read more... )

I was issued a work laptop (yay!). It is not a macbook pro (tearsniff). It is an IBM Thinkpad by Lenovo. It has a stupid straight keyboard, as they all do. But this one has an extra-special bad feature. Quick, without looking, where is your left CTRL key? Bet it's the extreme bottom left of the keyboard. That's where my keyboards have trained me to ( Read more... )

When I got here, I was surprised to find that pretty much everyone has two monitors ( Read more... )

Okay, two things. First, whoever on my friends list subscribes to the passionateusers feed, thank you.

Second, oooh ahhhh, OMG! I want to sit behind this woman's desk and watch her type. I want her to be my Yoda. I want to write her software manuals! How to get users to RTFMIn which she espouses many of the same feelings that I've had, only, you ( Read more... )