How We're Ruining GUIs Reflections on how we've come to use graphical interfaces. Copyright 1995 by Stever Robbins . Please do not reproduce or distribute without permission. This is the draft of an article I hope to submit for publication.
Some programs are certainly easier to learn , now.
But on a daily basis, most of them slow me down, rather than speeding me up. It takes a lot of brainpower to do anything with them. Everything is Choices More and more, things pop up lists. They display a dozen checkboxes, and let you choose among them. They give you folder tabs inside dialogs, so you can select the one you want.