{"id":138,"date":"2011-04-15T05:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=138"},"modified":"2021-11-17T11:21:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T11:21:43","slug":"an-it-savy-guy-watching-the-noob-surf-the-web-are-interfaces-that-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"An IT savy guy watching the noob surf the web. Are interfaces that easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an interesting video showing an IT literate person watching a novice doing some web searching and going nuts meanwhile.<\/p>\n<p>I often find myself in a similar situation, looking at someone doing something on a computer, in what seams to me the hardest possible way to do it. But there are many ways to do the same thing on a computer and we are all given options (like driving the car form A to B can be done on different streets). But beware, most of the advanced options (like Ctrl-C Ctrl-V) are hidden and not obvious to most people (conclusion from observations).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Friends sometimes mention that I am too patient and that they could not stay calm watching the slow motion of computer usage. But I let users do the things they are used to. If I try explain how to do things faster to my dad for example, I only confuse him. If he asks me how to do it then I help. Otherwise I am happy that he can do at least some things on his computer. <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fa9DLxDtPtc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fa9DLxDtPtc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object> <\/p>\n<p>Is it really users who fail to use software or is it interfaces that fail users? I know quite a few people who type URLs in google search box!! I know people who know URLs by heart but still type therms (and not URLs) in google search box to find desired pages! I even know a guy who keeps all his important&nbsp; bookmarks in FF toolbar and never uses them. Instead he uses google to find those pages! So is there a right way to do it? No! There are many ways, some shorter and some longer but eventually they all solve some problems.<\/p>\n<p> The other day I asked a student to show me&nbsp; the size of a file (called output.txt) in command line. And to my astonishment he seriously typed:<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: #ffffd2;\">$ ls -l &gt; file.txt<br \/>$ awk &#8216;\/output.txt\/ {print $5}&#8217; file.txt<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an interesting video showing an IT literate person watching a novice doing some web searching and going nuts meanwhile. I often find myself in a similar situation, looking at someone doing something on a computer, in what seams to me the hardest possible way to do it. But there are many ways&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}