I agree with you that good UI should have affordances that are easy to use. But, you are missing a bit point in why this mouse is good for UI; The single button is still there in primary action without any need for tutelage. The things that people may need help on is the advanced features that most people will not use. I agree with PoET in things that you don't use everyday should be easy to grok without a minimum of effort but I think that with something so essential to the modern computing experience that we are OK with making some features harder to understand to for the novice in making the device that more valuable to the advanced user. (But really, other than moving the cursor, the mouse only has 5 things it can do if you count the swipe gesture as two operations.)
Good point. I think you nailed my problem, that I am not an every-day user of OS X :) but I expect there to be affordances for "advanced" features. This is really no different from their current trackpad offerings -- when I use a friend's MacBook, I'm usually befuddled enough by the trackpad that I stick to basic point+click+keyboard.
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I agree with you that good UI should have affordances that are easy to use. But, you are missing a bit point in why this mouse is good for UI; The single button is still there in primary action without any need for tutelage. The things that people may need help on is the advanced features that most people will not use. I agree with PoET in things that you don't use everyday should be easy to grok without a minimum of effort but I think that with something so essential to the modern computing experience that we are OK with making some features harder to understand to for the novice in making the device that more valuable to the advanced user. (But really, other than moving the cursor, the mouse only has 5 things it can do if you count the swipe gesture as two operations.)
Good point. I think you nailed my problem, that I am not an every-day user of OS X :) but I expect there to be affordances for "advanced" features. This is really no different from their current trackpad offerings -- when I use a friend's MacBook, I'm usually befuddled enough by the trackpad that I stick to basic point+click+keyboard.