Re: Anthropomorphic

Subject: Re: Anthropomorphic
From: Christopher Pickslay <chrispix -at- BIGFOOT -dot- COM>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 09:45:36 -0700

>Hey, what's an adjective to describe the extent to which a UI duplicates
>real physical operations (documents placed into files then files into
>folders; cut and paste, etc.)?
>I have always used, for lack of a better term, "mondopomorphic", a word
>I made up when drunk. Everybody I work with knows what it means, but I
>would never use it in anything other than verbal communication.
>Anybody know any "real" term for this quality?

How about iconic?


?:^)
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