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Ellen
Ullman has a great opinion piece in today's NYT,
The
Boss in the Machine:
Distraction is built into the fabric of today's electronic world.
Icons on the PC toolbar flash; ads on Web pages shimmer and dazzle;
software companies send e-mail messages to say your software is out of
date; word processors interrupt to correct your spelling; Web pages
refuse to show themselves until you update a plug-in; lights on
laptops blink at you every time the hard drive whirs into motion
We need to do more work designing calm user interfaces. Desktop
appliations should take a hint from computer games, which in general
have learned to replace the clutter of 15 toolbars and status displays
with a more immersive, simple interface.
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