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Had another "oh fuck AI is eating the world" moment today. A friend demo'd an exact rebuild of ChatGPT's Canvas product for me. It took him 5 days of coding and is just as good as the original. I don't think software companies realize how screwed they are in the absence of

Alex Lieberman x.com

In some cases, the right interface idea is obvious. For example, when you’re Google trying to make the entire web accessible, you can’t expect people to learn some monstrous cataloging system of folders to find what they need. There probably exists no tagging system comprehensive enough to cover the entire web, either. So the natural choice is the

thesephist.com • Navigate, don't search

The fact that the people who built the site didn’t care enough to make things obvious—and easy—can erode our confidence in the site and the organization behind it.

Steve Krug • Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)

Consider the cartographer: Maps are not purely objective creations. They reflect the values, standards, and limitations of their creators.

Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts

If you’ve read any history at all, you discover a sobering truth about mankind: humans get what they get by taking it from other humans. This is never-ending.

Aaron Gwyn x.com

You can't do it. You can't collapse these categorizations without some signal loss. The problem is, because the cataloguers assume their classification should have force on the world, they underestimate the difficulty of understanding what users are thinking, and they overestimate the amount to which users will agree, either with one another or... See more

Clay Shirky • Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags

Pierre

pierre.co

"Each individual categorization scheme is worth less than a professional categorization scheme. But there are many, many more of them." If you find a way to make it valuable to individuals to tag their stuff, you'll generate a lot more data about any given object than if you pay a professional to tag it once and only once. And if you can find any... See more

Clay Shirky • Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags

Humans are bad at coming up with search queries. Humans are good at incrementally narrowing down options with a series of filters, and pointing where they want to go next. This seems obvious, but we keep building interfaces for finding information that look more like Google Search and less like a map.