<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Dave Bauer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@solutiongrove.com">dave@solutiongrove.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:01 AM, John Watlington <<a href="mailto:wad@laptop.org">wad@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> When OS X starts up with a search box open<br>
>> instead of a blank desktop we'll know we are there :)<br>
><br>
> What a nightmare ! I'm sorry, but once you move past trivial amounts<br>
> of information, correctly specifying the search or filtering through<br>
> the results of a loosely specified search takes forever. My laptop has<br>
> over a half-million files on it, with only a small fraction of my<br>
> photos/music/movie collection and no files older than five years old on it.<br>
><br>
> I use iMail and Spotlight as much as the next Mac user, but finding the<br>
> right mail from (who was that ?) on (what month/year was that ?) about<br>
> a common topic can be very frustrating. Whereas the spatial localization<br>
> paradigm works wonderfully for me (perhaps as it is how I find things in<br>
> the physical world ?) If I want to find something again, I put it in a<br>
> certain place in my desktop/hierarchical file system/office/home.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>I can understand that. What if you forgot where you put it last year?<br>
I either don't remember where/how I filed something, or I specifically<br>
didn't think about it, because I knew I could search for it later. I<br>
remeber instead, the keywords I can use to bring something back up in<br>
a search. Maybe it's functionally equivlant, we should get MRIs to<br>
find out :)<br>
<br>
More relevant, has anyone studied how typical users manage a<br>
hierarchal filesystem? Do they put everything straight into My<br>
Documents? I don't have a large sample size to compare. There<br>
definitely is a spectrum of users. Casual home users who mainly use<br>
email and the internet along with downloading photos or videos from<br>
their camera. Small office users, corporate users with a WAN, users<br>
without persistent internet etc.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I know there might be places that I dont want anyone to wonder off, so I have it pretty deep in my filestructure not to popup just randomly. Having a search based paradigm will also present a risk just like google searching for the wrong "Swedish Girls" semantics in Google Images.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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I am sure someone has, but I haven't ever looked for this type of<br>
literature beyond reading a couple of books on web site usability<br>
years ago.<br>
<br>
Dave<br>
<div class="im"><br>
>> For me, I think these ideas, plus new ones we haven't thought of,<br>
>> combined with refined user interfaces developd based on user behaviors<br>
>> are the future. The more the computer can predict what you want, the<br>
>> more it can help you get your work done. You just have to give it a<br>
>> hint.<br>
><br>
> Secretaries and personal assistants have done this for years, but I<br>
> don't believe that AI is up to the challenge yet.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Most users use the desktop to store everything and I mean everything. Reminds me of an episode of the Website is down up in youtube. </div>
<div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8_Kfjo3VjU&t=7m54s">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8_Kfjo3VjU&t=7m54s</a> (NSFW!)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">
> Of course, this doesn't mean we shouldn't try to improve the current UIs...<br>
><br>
> Cheers,<br>
> wad<br>
><br>
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</div>--<br>
<div class="im">Dave Bauer<br>
<a href="mailto:dave@solutiongrove.com">dave@solutiongrove.com</a><br>
</div><a href="http://www.solutiongrove.com" target="_blank">http://www.solutiongrove.com</a><br>
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