Ian Lewis' Blog

I just read this post over at the One Laptop Per Child News site on the user interface that they use with the OLPC called Sugar. It's a GUI designed to work on the OLPC X0-1, which is what they call the laptop, and also be user friendly for 3rd world children. No crazy complicated explanations about why you don't have enough memory or swap space or whatever, just a nice little circular bar that shows what applications are using your memory and how much. You can also load and close applications "like toys" by pulling them out of the toybox and putting them back in from the play area, so to speak.

Update: By the way, this is not the real UI for the OLPC. It's just Sugar. The video is "translated" into a Mac UI using a theme (or it's actually running on a Mac) for those who don't like to look at the real UI for the OLPC. Basically I think the author wanted to show off the ideas behind the UI without having to deal with comments about the UI being ugly and plain. If you want to see what people are talking about when they say they don't like the interface for the OLPC check out this video.