Talk:Baby duck syndrome

Feb 2007
This is a stupid article. Never heard of this term, and the article has an air of "people who 'suffer' from this are lesser people". I'd nominate it for deletion but i can't be assed to figure out how.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.57.195.9 (talk • contribs).

May 2007
Hi, a Google search shows that this term has some use amongst Computer-Human Interaction specialists, mostly tied to the Seebach article. So I'd argue that Baby Duck Syndrome is (only just) notable enough for an article.

I've had a go at cleaning it up. I also removed the stub tag, because I don't see the article ever getting much longer. I've classified it in Category:Human-computer interaction and Category:Usability.

I had to guess what this sentence meant: "While Macintosh computers have less vocal incidents of baby duck syndrome, it is still common."

I've requested citations for my guess and another 2 claims.

Does anyone have a citation for the statement that Baby Duck Syndrome explains the preference for QWERTY keyboards over Dvorak? I think that most people would agree; that's why I didn't request a cite for it.

Improvements and corrections are welcome.

Cheers, CWC 14:45, 24 May 2007 (UTC) corrected 09:29, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Rather belatedly, I think Path dependence is a better explanation for QWERTY's dominance. Estevezj (talk) 22:34, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

December 2011
I propose that this page be deleted, and a sentence be added to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock-in_(decision-making) stating that "lock-in is sometimes termed 'baby duck syndrome' in the field of computer GUI design". — Preceding unsigned comment added by PatrickJLByrne (talk • contribs) 11:18, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Support I think that this page should be deleted, but I think that the best place for inclusion is Path dependence rather than Lock-in_(decision-making) because this refers to a technical rather than institutional restraints, a distinction made in the lede of the proposed destination. Estevezj (talk) 22:34, 29 January 2012 (UTC)