Cognitive Artifacts & Windows 95

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on its little to-do list without having the
user worrying about whether he/she remembered to include all the commands. On
the side of personal views the user may see the wizard as a new task to learn
but in general it is simpler than having to configure the application yourself
and making an error, that could cause disaster to your system. The wizard also
prevents the user from having to deal with all the internal representation of
the application like typing in command lines in the system editor.
Within Windows 95 most of the representation is internal therefore we
need a way to transform it to surface representation so it is accessible to the
user. According to Norman's article there are "three essential ingredients in
representational systems. These being the world which is to be represented, the
set of symbols representing the world, and an interpreter." This is done in
Windows by icons on the desktop and on the start menu. The world we are trying
to represent to the ...

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