Betsy Devine: Funny ha-ha and/or funny peculiar

When I learn a new UI, which you can assume I DO NOT WANT TO LEARN BECAUSE MY LIFE IS COMPLICATED ENOUGH, why do I have to spend any time learning it, why isn’t it learning ME … in other words, as I start using TypePad and I keep hitting certain buttons on a regular basis, or stroking certain keys, why doesn’t it make those keys grow larger? Just like WORD remembers the last documents I was working on and has them in the bottom of the file menu — can’t a good UI learn me and remember what I do? Come on UI guys and gals, take a cue from the natural world. God’s a fine designer. He came up with a great piece of hardware that gets bigger when you stroke it.