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Jacqui Brown asked me what would have happened if, in 1990, the UAW had gone on strike against the auto companies.
What if, she wondered, the unions had gone on strike, not over wages or work rules but because the car companies weren’t being innovative enough? What if they had walked out not over a contract dispute but because the industry refused to challenge the status quo and reinvent itself?
There’s an impetus to hide the technical details of the world, but I think that’s a devastating mistake.
Hints of the existence of a deeper technical layer is how kids are inspired to become engineers.
Turning technology into a magical black box arguably makes technology much less magical than hinting at how that black box actually works.
A Frivolous Feature
kontakt@marginalia.nu (Viktor Lofgren)
To summarise those desirable qualities, a good notation is:
- Composable
- Shareable
- Degrabable
- Learnable
- Semantic
- Grammatical
- Efficiently expressive
- Suggestive
- Intentional
- Legible
I can’t quite tell whether I’m trying to force together two concepts (notation and user interface) which are fundamentally different, or whether there is something fruitful in seeing them as aspects of the same thing.
Collecting My Thoughts About Notation and User Interfaces
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