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sugar, conceived by  http://new.pentagram.com/2006/12/new-work-one-laptop-per-child/ provides access to functionality via a myriad of cryptic icons.  Once established in the mind of a user, icons are powerful: the 26 letters of the Roman alphabet, for example, are powerful carriers of information.
 
sugar, conceived by  http://new.pentagram.com/2006/12/new-work-one-laptop-per-child/ provides access to functionality via a myriad of cryptic icons.  Once established in the mind of a user, icons are powerful: the 26 letters of the Roman alphabet, for example, are powerful carriers of information.
 
But to become a user of that alphabet, you first have to learn it.
 
But to become a user of that alphabet, you first have to learn it.
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"We definitely need the ‘tips and tricks’ section for the XO Guide." -
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http://blog.laptop.org/best-of-olpc-feedback-a-compilation-of-compelling-comments/
    
kidie's principal design requirement is that it be simpler, more obvious than sugar, and have the flattest possible learning curve whilst providing seamless access to all the functionality of sugar and sugar network and dextrose and toast and and and...!
 
kidie's principal design requirement is that it be simpler, more obvious than sugar, and have the flattest possible learning curve whilst providing seamless access to all the functionality of sugar and sugar network and dextrose and toast and and and...!
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