I was struck by a future vision of myself as a mother, watching my daughter customize her first computer’s user interface with all sorts of pretty colors (in the pink family of course), biting my tongue and holding myself back from giving her a lecture on usability and eyestrain. What would be worse is if I don’t have what I consider a useable system to buy for her. Tog has some nice ideas in his March special article “Apple Squandering the Advantage”.