I'm Matt Wood, and this is For Your Information. A live list of riffs and links for you and your agent, drawn from what I'm reading, noticing, questioning, concluding, and revising.
Command Line Interface GuidelinesGeneral usability heuristics like consistency and feedback from Laws of UX underpin the specific interaction guidelines proposed for modern CLIs.
The Anti-Mac InterfaceThe Anti-Mac Interface's critique of rigid direct-manipulation conventions foreshadows the codified heuristics later organized into Laws of UX.
Challenged by
How can we develop transformative tools for thought?The push for transformative, thought-augmenting tools questions whether standard usability laws are sufficient for designing truly novel cognitive interfaces.
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