Thesis
I am doing this
Thesis
I am doing this
The two things that must always cooperate are human nature and the mechanism of communication. The first is a relatively permanent factor; but the second is highly variable, and is for that reason of peculiar interest and importance. Its variations have generally been in the direction of greater efficiency, and it is largely because of this fact
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One reason we find apps easy to understand even if we've never used them before is that navigability and consistency are so ingrained into the patterns of app design today.
Kuang | User Friendly Page 31
When feedback is tied not merely to the way machines work but instead to the things we value most-our social circles, our self-image—it can become the map by which we chart our lives. It can determine how the experiences around us feel. In an era when how a product feels to use is the measure of how much we'll use it, this is everything.
Kuang | User Friendly Pg 37-38
Every new medium creates a new environment. As we adapt to the environment, it shapes our perceptions and thoughts, our relationships with others, even our sense of self. The Yale professor John Durham Peters points out that a crucial line in Cooley's article-"social influences act through a mechanism; and the character of their action depends upon
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