Death to mouse
Sun Oct 5th, 2008The famed & revered Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini was recently quoted in an article by the Financial Times as saying “In many ways, our continued reliance on the computer mouse reduces us to little more than cavemen, running around pointing at symbols and ‘grunting’ with each click”
In many ways this is already true. Many portables use either a nipple or a trackpad, although I’m sure this isn’t exactly what he was getting at.And of course let’s not forget touch screen displays such as the iPhone’s, which provides a unique and highly “gestured” mode of navigating from screen to screen.
It’s quite an interesting point, as with most things digital, we’ve designed devices or interfaces with referential analogs such as the pen or pencil and typewriter. Devices like the Cintiq, though brilliant in many ways, is simply a tablet PC or even worse, a pad of paper.