The part about 30boxes and Google Calendar's quick add features brings the point together:
"The quick-add feature doesn't even really feel like an interface, which is the highest compliment an interface can get: the better an interface is, the less it's noticed."
Clearly many tasks will be more efficient if you can convince people to type instead of clicking around a bunch. The trick is setting it up in such a way that what they have to type is completely intuitive. Almost as if they are typing out what they want done in natural language.
Clearly many tasks will be more efficient if you can convince people to type instead of clicking around a bunch. The trick is setting it up in such a way that what they have to type is completely intuitive. Almost as if they are typing out what they want done in natural language.