Ian J. Wessman's

Five ¢ents

  • July 9th
    Wolfram Alpha and hubristic user interfaces

    Jeff Hawkins realized is that the human skull contains an organ called a “brain,” which has spent several million years learning to use tools. Therefore, if you are building a control interface, ie a tool, the prudent way to proceed is to (a) assume your users will need to learn to use your tool, (b) make it as easy as possible to learn the tool, and (c) make the tool as effective as possible once it is learned.

    Michael Tsai

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