Y Combinator Challenge #2 - Simplified Browsing • Hacker News Board

Re: Y Combinator Challenge #2 - Simplified Browsing

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Post by kleneway » Wed, Jul 23, 2008, 3:26 PM UTC

jrrl wrote: post #10

Has anyone figured out why it is called the Jesus browser? It is meant to be the resurrection of the browser or something?

It's a tongue-in-cheek reference to how people call the iPhone the Jesus Phone. The main idea = for years mobile phone companies kept churning out iterations on a single UX, and it took Apple starting from scratch and focusing on design first to take the mobile phone to the next level. Why doesn't someone do the same thing with the browser?

Re: Y Combinator Challenge #2 - Simplified Browsing

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Post by kleneway » Wed, Jul 23, 2008, 3:32 PM UTC

jfornear wrote: post #4

The topic of simplified browsing targeted solely to old people comes up all the time with my parents and friends' parents. From what I've collected, old people say they want easier this and that, but when it comes down to it, the individuals that continue to experience difficulty either do not take the time to learn new technology or are hindered by a disability. If easier means different, how can you expect them to…

Very good points, thanks for the feedback. I spent a year teaching computer classes for middle school kids, and it really was an eye-opening experience. The basic concepts we take for granted (clicking the mouse button, refining a bad search query) are skills that need to be learned. But once they are, watch out. You add together hormones and Google and these guys are suddenly little Mitnicks hacking their way around all the filters we had in place.

Re: Y Combinator Challenge #2 - Simplified Browsing

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Post by kleneway » Wed, Jul 23, 2008, 3:34 PM UTC

Tichy wrote: post #8

"For text input, I’d actually not even bother putting a text box anywhere on the screen." Bad idea. No hint as to where and how to enter text. How is one supposed to come up with the idea to just start typing?

I added some comments in the original post about this one. :)

Re: Y Combinator Challenge #2 - Simplified Browsing

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Post by rthomas6 » Wed, Jul 23, 2008, 4:49 PM UTC

Tichy wrote: post #9

What all OS need is a simpler way to freeze things. My mom constantly calls me because the UI has changed due to accidental clicks, and my instructions don't work anymore. For example, my explanation for attaching pictures to mails (a REALLY complicated task) involves dragging them to the windows icon on the task bar, but somehow her Gnome task bar keeps losing the "windows selector". One accidental click and all eff…

heh. You have your mom running Linux. Nice. :)

Re: Y Combinator Challenge #2 - Simplified Browsing

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Post by Tichy » Wed, Jul 23, 2008, 9:08 PM UTC

rthomas6 wrote: post #14

Tichy wrote: post #9

What all OS need is a simpler way to freeze things. My mom constantly calls me because the UI has changed due to accidental clicks, and my instructions don't work anymore. For example, my explanation for attaching pictures to mails (a REALLY complicated task) involves dragging them to the windows icon on the task bar, but somehow her Gnome task bar keeps losing the "windows selector". One accidental click and all eff…

heh. You have your mom running Linux. Nice. :)

By now she is getting better and better, even googling for solutions to problems ;-)