When I use a direct manipulation system whether for text editing, drawing pictures, or creating and playing games I do think of myself not as using a computer but as doing the particular task. The computer is, in effect, invisible. The point cannot be overstressed: make the computer system invisible.
"The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman, ch. 6, p. 185, 1988.
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