Turing Complete User - Olia Lialina

Invisible and Very Busy

Computers are getting invisible. They shrink and hide. They lurk under the skin and dissolve in the cloud. We observe the process like an eclipse of the sun, partly scared, partly overwhelmed. We divide into camps and fight about advantages and dangers of The Ubiquitous. But whatever side we take — we do acknowledge the significance of the moment.

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Gestural Interfaces: A Step Backwards In Usability

"... several important fundamental principles of interaction design that are completely independent of technology:



· Visibility (also called perceived affordances or signifiers)

· Feedback

· Consistency (also known as standards)

· Non-destructive operations (hence the importance of undo)

· Discoverability: All operations can be discovered by systematic exploration of menus

· Scalability. The operation should work on all screen sizes, small and large.

· Reliability. Operations should work. Period. And events should not happen randomly.

All these are rapidly disappearing from the toolkit of designers, aided, we must emphasize, by the weird design guidelines issued by Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

What are we talking about?"

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A Leg Up - Popsci

“It was pretty quickly introducing secondary trauma,” he says. “People are not constructed to walk on their arms.” - Jeff Webber. (body to gravity interface?)

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