Comments on: The innovative interface of the OLPC laptop http://dubroy.com/blog/2008/01/10/the-innovative-interface-of-the-olpc-laptop/ on programming, usability, and design; by Patrick Dubroy Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:45:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Do you take Sugar with your User Interface? | Jason Slater Weblog http://dubroy.com/blog/2008/01/10/the-innovative-interface-of-the-olpc-laptop/#comment-12082 Fri, 23 May 2008 16:20:00 +0000 http://dubroy.com/blog/2008/01/10/the-innovative-interface-of-the-olpc-laptop/#comment-12082 <p>[...] The innovative interface of the OLPC laptop Technorati Tags: user interface,ui,sugar,sugar labs,olpc,operating system [...]</p> […] The innovative interface of the OLPC laptop Technorati Tags: user interface,ui,sugar,sugar labs,olpc,operating system […]

]]> by: Dubroy.com/blog - What I’ve been up to: freehand drawing on the OLPC laptop http://dubroy.com/blog/2008/01/10/the-innovative-interface-of-the-olpc-laptop/#comment-10796 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:58:10 +0000 http://dubroy.com/blog/2008/01/10/the-innovative-interface-of-the-olpc-laptop/#comment-10796 <p>[...] Some of you might remember my post from January where I talked about the innovative interface of the OLPC laptop. I wrote that post after talking to Mike Fletcher about doing an OLPC-related project for a course I was taking with Greg Wilson. It turned out to be a really fun and cool project, and now that I’m finally finished the course, I thought I’d post about it here. [...]</p> […] Some of you might remember my post from January where I talked about the innovative interface of the OLPC laptop. I wrote that post after talking to Mike Fletcher about doing an OLPC-related project for a course I was taking with Greg Wilson. It turned out to be a really fun and cool project, and now that I’m finally finished the course, I thought I’d post about it here. […]

]]> by: Michael Jurka http://dubroy.com/blog/2008/01/10/the-innovative-interface-of-the-olpc-laptop/#comment-7877 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:07:45 +0000 http://dubroy.com/blog/2008/01/10/the-innovative-interface-of-the-olpc-laptop/#comment-7877 <p>I tried out the Sugar UI back when they released it, but I wasn't impressed. It felt like trading one evil for another--it's different, but I didn't feel like it was better. But you are right, getting rid of save/open and the hierarchical file system are a big step in the right direction. Maybe I should give it another try.</p> <p>Funny you mention hierarchical file systems, since I'm currently bashing them in my related works section of my thesis. You alluded to others posts about the hierarchical file systems on your blog, but I couldn't find any. Am I missing something?</p> I tried out the Sugar UI back when they released it, but I wasn’t impressed. It felt like trading one evil for another–it’s different, but I didn’t feel like it was better. But you are right, getting rid of save/open and the hierarchical file system are a big step in the right direction. Maybe I should give it another try.

Funny you mention hierarchical file systems, since I’m currently bashing them in my related works section of my thesis. You alluded to others posts about the hierarchical file systems on your blog, but I couldn’t find any. Am I missing something?

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