Spatial Nautilus or windows training
Ben Steeves
bcs at metacon.ca
Wed Apr 7 10:59:30 UTC 2004
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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