theory
Reading Interfaces - http://reader.lgru.net/collections/reading-interfaces/ - The division and the implicit hierarchy between the user who accesses the interface and the developer who has insight into the underlying code sparks many questions. How does an interface expose and translate the underlying digital objects? To what extent does it frame and script the user behaviour? Are coding skills necessary for computer literacy? And is it possible to actively/deeply engage with software, if one confines oneself to the provided interface?
- (echo echo) echo (echo): Command Line Poetics - http://reader.lgru.net/texts/echo-echo-echo-echo-command-line-poetics/ - Most arguments in favor of command line versus graphical user interface (GUI) computing are flawed by system administrator Platonism...
- Alan Kay, "A User Interface: a Personal View" -http://reader.lgru.net/texts/about-alan-kay-a-user-interface-a-personal-view/ - Alan Kay is one of the most important figure in the history of human/computer interaction. He and his team at Xerox PARC have conceived many tools and paradigms that shape today's computing, including object oriented language, "windows, icons, menus, pointer" style of interaction, etc....
- Turing complete user - http://reader.lgru.net/texts/turing-complete-user/ - Computers are getting invisible. They shrink and hide. They lurk under the skin and dissolve in the cloud. We observe the process like an eclipse of the sun, partly scared, partly overwhelmed.
- Inside Photoshop - http://reader.lgru.net/texts/inside-photoshop/ - Contemporary media is experienced, created, edited, remixed, organized and shared with software....
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