Sunday, March 6, 2016

A prime directive for User Interaction

If you're familiar with the sci-fi francise called "Star Trek", a depiction of humanity in a more evolved, more civilized state, you will already be familiar with the concept of a prime directive. For everyone else i wil explain it in this post and also show why we need such a prime directive for user interaction.

A prime directive as depicted by star trek is a law.

For the purpose of restoring user interfaces to their former good standing, and putting the user back in their rightful plase as the surpreme ruler of their computers, i want to take the concept of the prime directive one step further. Not only should the prime directive stand above all other laws, all other laws should be derived from the prime directive. The essence, and soul in every law should inherit the philosophy of the prime directive.
And that prime directive is:

The user must at all times be in complete control of their computing activity.


Upon reading this, a critic might argue that this is impossible. In order to be in complete control of the computer, the user would have to flip every bit and manipulate every register manually. This is not using a computer.
the key word is Activity. This refers to what the User is doing, not what is happening in the background.,

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