CCC comments on Rationality Quotes Thread May 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 01 May 2015 07:57:48PM *  8 points [-]

The real problem with the interface is that it is an interface. Interfaces get in the way. I don’t want to focus my energies on an interface. I want to focus on the job…I don’t want to think of myself as using a computer, I want to think of myself as doing my job.

-- Donald A. Norman The Art of Computer-Human Design p. 120, see e.g. here

Comment author: CCC 07 May 2015 10:09:24AM *  2 points [-]

This suggests that the perfect interface is one that gets in the way as little as possible, that allows the user to do their job as easily as possible. The perfect interface does not trumpet its own glory with bells and whistles and graphical thingys - rather, the perfect interface gets as far out of the way as possible and just lets the user work.

I agree with this.

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