Views and Feelings
For five years I wrote a column called Views and Feelings for the
SIGCHI Bulletin. Then
I wrote Reflections for interactions. These are those
articles.
- Parallel Worlds
What sort of mess would we be in if filestores had developed in the same
way that user interface software has?
- A Word of Encouragement
An argument for blind reviewing
- Let Vs Coniectvre VVhat the VVorld VVovld
Be Liqe Had the Roman Empire Not Fallen
Character sets, and how badly most of the world is supported
- No Such Number, No Such Zone
The pains of telling computer systems what your address is
- Gbldgk
Why notations should be designed using user interface techniques
- Things that Stay Us from the Swift
Completion of Our Appointed Tasks
Why are mail readers so uniformly bad?
- Metaphorically Speaking
Wrong use of terminology
- Programmers Are Humans Too
Why is it so hard to write a GUI program?
- Beep Beep!
Sound in the user interface
- Never is a Long Time
Why screens will replace paper eventually
- Quick! The Future is Coming!
If technological advances of computing are so easy to predict, why are we
so short-sighted?
- If Six Were Nine
'Smart' software. Ha!
- Programmers are Humans Too, 2
Why are programming languages so bad?
- Hell and Documentation
Why documentation should be designed using user interface techniques
- Flags are not Languages
So don't use flags as icons representing languages.
- Teenagers, Sex Education and Microsoft
The sad state of platform interoperability.
- Mysteries Worth Pondering
Inconsistencies within and between systems
- The Screen is not Paper
Why you shouldn't use PDF for documents intended for the screen
- Our
subliminal art
Zen and the Art of Interaction Design
- The
demise of the book
If you're one of those people that thinks there's nothing like the feel
and smell of a lovely book, come over to my house sometime and smell
mine.
- It
rings for thee
How our interactions with devices live in the fringes of unanticipated
possibilities.
- The
accidental death of reviewing
Peer-review has structural problems that may just go away
- So
much for WYSIWYG
Horror stories from a multi-lingual environment.
- Abusus
non tollit usum
Is it OK to use the word "Affordance" about aspects of screen
interfaces?
- Photocopy
this article!
Why publishers should be encouraging digital copying like Napster.
- The
design of notations
Many eyes make UI bugs shallow, too.
- In
search of the killer app
Successes and failures of the mobile Internet.
- The
culture of uncertainty
A proposed explanation of why some websites are apparently so wilfully
hard to use.
- Did
convergence kill the clock?
Will devices converge to one all-powerful device, or will they stay
separate and learn to communicate?
- Electric IP
What will it mean for the user if Internet comes out of the electric
plug?
- Choose one: fast,
correct, or pleasurable
On the definition of usability.
- Go
away!
Web sites that don't care if you can see their content
- A
Pixel is not a Point
Screen resolution (pixel density) is increasing. Don't use pixels as a
measure of font size if you want people to continue reading your web
pages.
- The
Kiss of the Spiderbot
The economic value of making websites accessible.
- Letter Writing,
Telephones, and Television
So is the net bad for human relationships?
- Restrictive
practices
Region codes on DVDs are a stupid idea.
- Hotel
Heartbreak
Why are hotel booking sites on the Web so terrible?
- So Big, So Bad, So
Often
How the bad design of programming languages causes viruses.
- Scratching someone
else's itch
Why open source can't do usability
- The Power
of Two
Available computing power doubles every 18 months. Why aren't we
taking advantage of it?
Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam
Last modified: Thu Jul 28 21:27:27 CEST 2005