====== 2024-W17 reading notes ======

===== User interface philosophy =====

Many years ago I've read an article about an approach to user-interface design that mentioned changing perspective from "what could a regular user / any user use?" to "what would be the perfect interface for an advanced user?". It was particularly insightful and claimed the change of perspective was fruitful. I think it //could// be an article about Plan9's interface. This week I'm searching for that article.

  * [[https://plan9.io/wiki/plan9/Mouse_vs._keyboard/index.html|Mouse vs. Keyboard]]
  * [[https://plan9.io/sys/doc/acme/acme.html|Acme: A User Interface for Programmers]]
  * [[http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/|The Text Editor sam]]

I'll need to search through:
  * [[https://plan9.io/wiki/plan9/Documentation/index.html|Documentation (Plan 9 wiki)]]
  * [[wp>Oberon (operating system)]]

===== Bad UI design =====


I've just gone through the [[https://userinyerface.com/|User Inyerface - a worst-practice experiment]]. It really is the worst UI, but it's not much worse than what we have to use nowadays...