Spatial Nautilus or windows training

[Ben Steeves]

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 23:06, Steve Bergman wrote:

> I'm curious, was spatial just someone's neat idea or is it backed up by
> some sort of usability study, or commonly accepted UI principles?

Spatial file management has a long and time-honoured history, including
the Macintosh and Amiga file managers.  There are strong HCI reasons for
using spatial interfaces, too.  Some of this is covered in this Ars
Technica article:

http://www.arstechnica.com/paedia/f/finder/finder-2.html
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