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Errors have two major forms. Slips occur when the goal is correct, but the required actions are not done properly: the execution is flawed. Mistakes occur when the goal or plan is wrong.
Slips and mistakes can be further divided based upon their underlying causes. Memory lapses can lead to either slips or mistakes, depending upon whether the memory failure was at the highest level of cognition (mistakes) or at lower (subconscious) levels (slips).
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
The reason why there's no music here, is this is a reverential statement. I want you to know I'm not joking. I want you to know I mean everything I'm saying. This is not hyperbole, this is: I - very much - I'm being sincere here.
- Right.
And by getting rid of the fun music, and the campiness, it's also why this shot is handheld.
- Yeah.
It's a level of intimacy. It's so you, the viewer, you're sitting right in front of me.
Casey Neistat's SECRET to Filmmaking
Digital Spaghetti
This scavenging in the SaaS landscape is how people express agency and control in a computing environment that limits who has access to programmatic power. Only professional programmers and designers get to decide what buttons go on the interface, what features get prioritised, and what affordances users have access to. Subverting that dynamic is the only way people can get their needs met with the computational tools they have at hand.
Folk Interfaces
Maggie Appleton
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