As our friends at Tech of the Hub note, the Touch clearly draws a lot of its heritage from the HarmonyOne and 1100 touchscreen remotes although to have ditched the dedicated Activity button for "one touch" control.
She simply handed the remote to me as she knew I'd have things set up in no time: I knew which activity to select on the HarmonyOne, to switch on the PS3 and how to search on the console's version of the Netflix app (each one is bizarrely different for some reason).