It's an interesting idea. But I think it shares the same design flaw as C# and Java: it's designed for people dumber than its creator. He says it himself: I think the best products are designed for their creators' own use, or at least for people perceived as intelligent as the designer. There's definitely a line somewhere. I mean, the average user isn't going to use emacs or vim. But I think this is way past that line. For example, I'm pretty strongly on the "minimal settings" side of design. But some settings are necessary. Sometimes you really do have relevant percentages of users who want different things. I think his "no settings" idea just isn't feasible. I don't know, maybe his starting point of "segmented browsers" is a better approach. Malcolm Gladwell has a TED talk where he basically says the brand with the most choice wins. Because there is no "perfect" spaghetti sauce. People are different. But if you have a dozen flavors, you'll get 12 markets instead of 1. Maybe browsers should take the same approach?I probably couldn't use this for work
Apparently it comes from a user classification study they did:
That actually looks really nice. I agree with what he was saying at the end of the video, for just light personal use I would probably use this browser too. And I would definitely try to get my parents / grandparents to use it; it seems perfect for their needs. Here's hoping someone actually develops something like this!