Category Archives: interface

Don Norman’s rethinking of Human-centered design.  He proposes that activity-centered design is in fact more useful as it avoids the trap of having to accomodate all user feedback.  Tools don’t adapt to the user, users often adapt to tools.  And … Continue reading →

In Søren Pold’s article "Interface Realisms" in the new issue of Postmodern Culture, he suggests that the interface is now a central aesthetic form conveying digital information of all kinds. "This circumstance is simultaneously trivial, provocative, and far reaching – … Continue reading →

Great bibliography on design and technology from NYU. Link: Values In Design.

User-illusion, a term dreamt up by the good people at Xerox PARC desribes the manifestation of metaphors in the experience of interface.  For instance, desktop, rooms, shopping cart, etc, are illusory metaphors that make the interface legible.  I wonder if … Continue reading →