Re: A new interaction paradigm?

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 16:54, Maurizio Colucci wrote:

> My ideas (intelligent option narrowing) and my code are at your disposal. Feel 
> free to import into GNOME what you believe to be of value.

This sounds somewhat like the idea behind Microsoft's "inductive" user
interfaces (elements of which you can see in XP Explorer, and MS Works
applications), where context-specific tasks are listed in a sidebar...
maybe it would be worthwhile looking at some of their research and
guidelines for more ideas, if you haven't already?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwui/html/iuiguidelines.asp
http://www.carlsononlinedesign.com/inductive.htm

A Google search turned up plenty of links, but this one seemed to have
some insightful comments about IUI:
http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=510

Cheeri,
Calum.

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