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Subject:RE: RE: my bad displays habit From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:44:24 +0000
I might go back to this mode if my target audience was elderly users of some kind of kiosk, people in the undeveloped world or anyone else who might be seeing a GUI for the first time.
At one time I might have done it for children, but today most children know how to use a GUI long before they can read.
Gene Kim-Eng
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On 2/26/2010 11:09 PM Kat Kuvinka wrote:
>I know we have had this discussion before, but...Yes.
>Some of my users
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