>I won't respond to all of your thoughtful post, Samuel, because it would take me all night, and I've got a user interface to design. :)

Thanks for the complement. (And I spent about an hour on it myself, it touched a nerve)

>But not all. And that's why, for example, Cooper insists that we provide different ways to do things for different types of users (like having both menus and hotkeys). He also urges us to write software so that the program can learn about the user, instead of having to be told every damn thing in a dialog box. :)

"Perpetual Intermediate", Perfect.

Adaptive software, the perfect dream, but for now a checkbox on a dialog box is something we can implement. And as for a computer adapting to my habits... that might happen when men and women finally understand eachother. :)