Talk:OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/The Laptop Experience

From OLPC

“Sorting by artist, then album, then track she can obtain a traditional view of her music. In order to view a discography for each artist, on the other hand, she could sort by artist, then by album, then by track.” Er… that’s not actually very flexible at all.

[edit] need to publicize this at the openinig page of the OLPC WIKI

As a new user of OLPC I was completely disoriented. I didn't realize I was being dropped into a whole new UI paradigm. Through the processes of just playing around w/ the machine it gradually dawned on me that ingrained notions of how a UI ought to behave did not apply. That's what caused me to dig down to find a page (this one--hey, where's the link?) which relates the world that I know to the one I'm trying to know. It needs to have much greater visibility. Without this background, people can easily become frustrated when the experience does not comport w/ what they're used to.