| ▲ | AfterHIA 5 days ago | |
Ethics and design guy here-- I think this is one of the most, "purposeful" articles I've seen in forever if you don't mind the pun. (I'm from Utah). I'm asking myself the question of fundamentally why UI designers are making decisions to include the, "tasteful delay" and its ultimately as the article points out prioritizing, "delightful presentations" for, "tools that ultimately serve the users purposes most effectively." I don't think I have to preach to a converted choir here about that but I'm reminded of Thorstein Veblen's famous book and I wonder; at a deeper level isn't misanthropic to reduce software to, "tools?" Lumiere created motion pictures and we told stories. We invented the interactive motion picture and we jerry-rigged into an automated office suite. Outside of the very sexy Alan Kay-Dan Ingalls fringe computer interfaces of all stripes descended from that very idiosyncratic paradigm. I wonder what crazy shit Ted Nelson is building with Claude right now. Sweet fuck. | ||