Retrofitting Zooming UI To Legacy Websites: An Impossible Task?
Its well known that, in the 80s, Microsoft and Apple made the graphical user interface (GUI), the dominant interface on desktop computers. Whats less known is that the GUI, whose navigation is based on pages and links, is not the only possible interface. And we know that finding our way in a modern GUI, whether for a website or application, is not always easy.
One problem is of design, meaning that an interface could simply be poorly designed. But a different problem may very well be the way our brains are wired; even well-designed interfaces can be difficult to navigate and use.
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