> It's absolutely crazy that a well designed TUI is so much faster. It turns out that if you never change the UI and every menu item always has the same hotkey, navigating the software becomes muscle memory and your speed is only limited by how fast you can physically push the buttons.
Bloomberg Terminal basically. And then because of muscle memory, it's so hard for users to get used to another system. And then they push it onto their juniors. And then you get to charge companies $250 per head to train juniors on how to use the system, with all of its textbased commands.
Ha. I experienced two decades of Bloomberg. It was always a melange of ancient Fortran tabbed forms with never-to-be-fixed bugs and newer consistent TUI. By 2010 they had started to pile on mouse menus.
The advantage was in typing a command and most of its arguments quickly.
I hope you didn't seriously associate the price $250 with Bloomberg training. Everything Bloomberg has a lot more zeroes after it, except what they pay to new hires in Princeton.
I worked for a small company that had a project with Bloomberg. We went to the office downtown, and being the clueless Upstate hick that I was, I saw the text-based UI up on a screen and asked my boss — a little too loudly — if we were at an auto parts store.
A single $250 payment per head for training is quite cheap if you consider the hours saved at not waiting for awfully slow SSO redirections to complete and web page refresh.
Bloomberg Terminal basically. And then because of muscle memory, it's so hard for users to get used to another system. And then they push it onto their juniors. And then you get to charge companies $250 per head to train juniors on how to use the system, with all of its textbased commands.