Tell me, I’ll forget. Show me, I’ll remember. Build me a walkthrough, I’ll have preferred a more intuitive UI.

Title: If you see a UI walkthrough, they blew it
Context: In a world without labeled controls, the first guy who can manage to guess the correct gesture is king.
Synopsis: The natural user interface (or NUI for an acronym that you can use to amaze friends and coworkers [and by “amaze” I of course mean “annoy”]). Gestural based interactions (no acronym as far as I am aware but screw it, let’s make one up: GBI). The building blocks of today’s clean, modern, slick, buttonless, utterly perplexing UIs. “Are you mad?” I hear you ask, “These are the interfaces of the future, with nothing standing between the user and their data.” Well, yes, that may be so (the future part, not the madness part [although that may be open to debate]). But does the future require instructions? I thought technology was supposed to make our lives simpler, not leave us staring at a computer screen perplexed with what we are confronted with, unable to fathom our next move. Well, go ahead then I guess. Slap an introductory walkthrough on your app. See if I care. But will your users thank you for it?
Best Bit: “These apps have chosen to reduce details to achieve a minimal UI, but in the process the UI has also become harder to use.”

via blog.maxrudberg.com