Friday, October 16, 2009

Graphics vs Text

Interesting discussion of GUI verses Scripts on Jared Still's Blog
Here are some examples where I think GUIs are powerful:
above is statspack verses the graphic interface I designed in DB Optimizer.
http://sites.google.com/site/embtdbo/graphics-vs-text
GUIs have the potential to be more powerful than scripts hands down but it is a question of writing them in a way that they aggregate, organize and compact data to be understood and processed faster and more easily by the user.

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