Recently, I came across a phrase from the IT section of a newspaper - “Grandmother Friendly.”

Wow, this phrase is really amazing and even measures how a software interface interact with human more specifically.

Automatically, my mind linked this phrase with another similar phrase - “User Friendly.”

User Friendly and Grandmother Friendly are similar, but they are different.  Grandmother Friendly is a subset of User Friendly.

If you have seen someone who does not know how to use a computer mouse, and push the computer mouse with one finger only, you will know how important “Grandmother Friendly” is.

In order to make a computer to be “Grandmother Friendly”, we can create shortcuts on desktop or even make the program to be auto run at startup etc..  All the setting needed to be pre-configured.

The grandmothers might not need to know their email addresses  / passwords but yet they can still be able to send and receive email.

The grandmothers might only need to switch on their computer by pressing the power button, then they can talk to their children using the webcam and mic.

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This word is not limited to the usage of computer only but also can be used in the modern electrical / electronic devices such as mobile phone, camera, DVD player etc..

Do not look down and laugh at those “grandmothers”.  Remember that we will become old too one day in the future, and at that time there may be some new technologies that we have not learned.