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“One of the big barriers with computers today is certainly the physical interface, but this isn’t a technology problem,” he says. “The bigger part of it is just in finding the right ways of thinking, finding the right representations of abstractions, so people can think thoughts that they couldn’t think before.
“The example I like to give is back in the days of Roman numerals, basic multiplication was considered this incredibly technical concept that only official mathematicians could handle,” he continues. “But then once Arabic numerals came around, you could actually do arithmetic on paper, and we found that 7-year-olds can understand multiplication. It’s not that multiplication itself was difficult. It was just that the representation of numbers — the interface — was wrong.”
The Utopian UI Architect
John Pavlus
A blank page box *puts **the burden on the user** to learn what to use it for.*
Conversational Interfaces: The Good, the Ugly & the Billion-Dollar Opportunity
Julie Zhuo
I've learned a lot in my current role by watching business colleagues pitch a compelling vision that spans years, using the design work as a touchstone. We didn't have to prove that we knew what the whole thing would look like in the end - just that the first thing was right.
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