Just say no to mouse buttons
August 7, 2006 4:24 PM   Subscribe

Can a user interface exist without clicking? dontclick.it
posted by bigmusic (10 comments total)

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Reminds me of Don't Shoot the Puppy.
posted by CRM114 at 4:31 PM on August 7, 2006


mother damn damn...

I searched for that URL.
posted by bigmusic at 4:35 PM on August 7, 2006


Yuck.

It's Flash; and it requires entirely too much mousing accuracy.

I can't even begin to itemize the reasons why this is Evil, Bad, and Wrong.
posted by baylink at 4:45 PM on August 7, 2006


Okay, but can a good user interface exist without clicking?
posted by rafter at 4:48 PM on August 7, 2006


Succeeds as eye-candy, fails (but not as badly as I might have supposed) as user interface.
posted by lekvar at 4:52 PM on August 7, 2006


It's a clever idea, but not a good one. The click specifies when I want my mouse motion to matter. That's much better than an interface that fades and whirls around every time I twitch. This is just slow and painful to use.
posted by musicinmybrain at 4:55 PM on August 7, 2006


Since I clicked the "close tab" button, I guess it failed.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 4:55 PM on August 7, 2006


Awesome. I would love it if something like this was developed for all programs. I work on CAD type stuff and it's just endless repetitive click, click click. Some parts of the application I use (Microstation) are mouse-over activated and it just feels so much better, more fluid and quicker to do things that way. It's obvious that it would be a better program if more of the commands would go on just by brushing over them.
I think the same could be said of things like Photoshop... maybe it's something you 'd want to use some times, but turn off others.
posted by Flashman at 4:56 PM on August 7, 2006


The only mouseover instead of click action I can think of that's useful is if I mouse over a menu button, such as the ubiquitous File Edit View ... menu bar on all Windows apps. If I put my mouse over File, it's pretty much a given I intend to look at the list of actions in that menu, but to activate that action, I would keep it as a click.
posted by linux at 5:06 PM on August 7, 2006


This seems a bit pointless. Clicking isn't the hard part if you have your hand on the mouse already. The annoying thing is moving your hand from the keyboard to the mouse. An interface that had you press letters would be much handier.
posted by QuietDesperation at 5:07 PM on August 7, 2006


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