Instrumental interfaces, engaged interfaces | thesephist.com
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Instrumental interfaces, engaged interfaces | thesephist.com
That same subtle distinction is happening today in when people mistake game mechanics for game play.
Matthew Hartman • i++ Issue #4: The next Zapier or IFTTT will use Game Design
Bret Victor: email (9/3/04)Interface matters to me more than anything else, and it always has. I just never realized that. I've spent a lot of time over the years desperately trying to think of a "thing" to change the world. I now know why the search was fruitless -- things don't change the world. People change the world by using things. The focus ... See more
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Learning From Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces
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Our interfaces should facilitate prose-sculpting, meaning-architecting, memory-augmenting, and inspiration-harvesting—all grounded in sources we love and trust.