I'm probably one of those people. I first came upon his writings while researching text editors and CLIs. It was all under the umbrella of a design, called "The Humane Interface". I agreed with him about somethings, like the universality of text, and the importance of undo, but disagreed with him about others like "modelessness" and file/program organization.
I can tell you why the Canon Cat never caught on with me. I don't recall ever hearing of it. Maybe I forgot. this was all a long time ago, circa 2000. Overall I did respect the amount of serious thought he had put into text-based interfaces and tried to hang onto what I thought was valuable, but I didn't buy into the system as a whole.
I can tell you why the Canon Cat never caught on with me. I don't recall ever hearing of it. Maybe I forgot. this was all a long time ago, circa 2000. Overall I did respect the amount of serious thought he had put into text-based interfaces and tried to hang onto what I thought was valuable, but I didn't buy into the system as a whole.