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mark weiser in 1996:
- the purpose of a computer is to help you do something else.
- the best computer is a quiet, invisible servant.
- the more you can do by intuition, the smarter you are; the computer should extend your *unconscious*.
- technology should create calm.
Kat ⊷ the Poet Engineerx.comInterfaces used to be the solution. “There’s an app for that” was music to our ears.
But now interfaces are overused. They’re getting in the way. Instead of pragmatic solutions, we’re building clunky apps.
The solution is not a better app. The solution is no app – no interface.
Example: an app to open your car. Krishna explains how such an app can... See more
But now interfaces are overused. They’re getting in the way. Instead of pragmatic solutions, we’re building clunky apps.
The solution is not a better app. The solution is no app – no interface.
Example: an app to open your car. Krishna explains how such an app can... See more
Golden Krishna • Notes on The Best Interface is No Interface
Today’s software apps are like appliances: we can only use the capabilities exactly as programmed by the developer. What if we, and all computer users, could reach in and modify our favorite apps? Or even create new apps on the fly according to our needs in the moment?
Ink & Switch • https://www.inkandswitch.com/end-user-programming/
And yet, in so much modern software today, you’re placed in a drab gray cubicle — anonymized and aggregated until you’re just a daily active user. For minimalism. For simplicity. For scale! But if our hope is to create software with feeling, it means inviting people in to craft it for themselves — to mold it to the contours of their unique lives
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