Friday, July 18, 2003

ZoomUI. I'm tired.  It's one of those pick-your-friend-up-downtown-and-drive-her-home nights.  And I have to drive to Canada tomorrow.  Dammit!  I am such a good friend to have.  Part of the pre-drive was getting my tires rotated and balanced.  The ole BMW is handlin' sweetly again, just in time to have the crap beaten out of it by the general lack of maintenance on the interstate system.  Or should I say, the lack of competent maintenance.  I have little doubt that there will simply be construction delay after construction delay tomorrow, as the men in orange seek to further distort our fair highway system, in as many dimensions as they can. While I was waiting I read through Jeff Raskin's chapter in Humane Interfaces on zoomable UIs.  Seems pretty bang-on to me -- his basic point is that you really have to put your thinking cap on.  Don't just replicate what you can do with a new user interface -- put your user's brain to work.  Use the stuff his brain is good at, like pattern and feature recognition.  I'll be taking some code with me to Canada.  We'll see what comes out of it. Back in five (days). 1:10:41 AM    comment []

Minor Perfidy Seeking Major Perfidy. They moved.  Read'em and weep! 1:06:32 AM    comment []