Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again
Something I've been noticing lately is the disappearance of the “power user”.Someone who's not a programer, but has learned lots of smart and efficient ways to getting their computer work done over the years. Shortcuts (keyboard or otherwise), click-hold-cmd-tab-drop or similar patterns, tags/labels for deep file organization, etc.It seems like there's now a much wider gap between the smartphone tap-only user and the Vim/Terminal ubergeek with almost nothing in between.I remember being floored by bureau in the 90s that completely automated their Photoshop and QuarkXPress workflow with AppleScript just by hitting the record button (not a single line of code written), folder actions, smart file placement and similar tricks.