Comment by mrngm
7 hours ago
Most, if not all, Asian take-out / restaurants in NL still use a TUI for registering your order. Several motorcyle retailers in NL use a TUI for parts management, invoicing, repair tracking. In both cases, people operating these systems develop muscle memory for their everyday usage. I'm not sure if it's still in use, but for at least a decade since 2005 or so, the local university's student canteen used an in-house developed TUI for selling snacks and drinks.
And if you stretch the definition of TUI a bit, the Bloomberg terminal is a fascinating example.
> if you stretch the definition of TUI a bit, the Bloomberg terminal is a fascinating example
The Bloomberg Terminal uses several different UI methodologies depending on use case -- many functions (applications) are absolutely TUIs whereas Launchpad is more mouse-driven.
> In both cases, people operating these systems develop muscle memory for their everyday usage.
I worked as a UX designer at Bloomberg and when we had to modify existing functions we were careful to maintain shortcuts and keyboard navigation. In a couple cases we even ended up re-implementing UI bugs that one or more users had grown accustomed to. I've never worked anywhere quite so committed to backward UI compatibility, but that came at the expense of a steep learning curve.
I think the Bloomberg terminal counts as a TUI. It's also probably the most complex and heavily used TUI in existence.