user-interface-software-and-technology
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A book surveying the literature on user interface software and technology.
- Why did we move towards “conversation with a computer” rather than “carefully crafted instructions”? - What are the implications for how we designed things like scrolling? Do they have...
- Include critiques for the end-user programming interface examples, since, while they do offer improvement from traditional ones, they’re by no means perfect. +1 CoCo, for example, introduces a large...
- Many said it was their favorite chapter! - How do designers go about advocating for their values? Have specific resources and steps to take +3 - Include examples of...
- Mention self-adapting interfaces +1 - Why aren’t help search bars in more/all interfaces? - Vocabulary problem and accompanying diagram difficult to understand - Is guiding a user through in...
Not specifically related to interfaces, but the last section of the ethics chapter (especially the sustainability part) reminded me of this: https://anatomyof.ai/
- What are the current limitations of hand input? Discuss or refute the shortcomings - It would be nice if the part about Apple’s 3D touch linked out to a...
- *Autism is not an intellectual disability, it is a developmental disorder. Please correct this harmful mistake.* - Neurodiversity is largely ignored in this chapter +1 - Talk about gaps...
- Text to speech experience for reading this chapter is not ideal, great that it reads the sides when it’s a term, but not great when it interrupts to read...
- What does it mean to have the human world at the periphery? Aren’t humans central to the gulf of execution/evaluation? - Visual diagram showing the difference between gulf of...
### History Critiques ### - Expand on terminology: - Mechanical vs digital when it comes to the analytical engine - What did the analytical engine look like? How did it...