Quotes About Interaction

The obnoxious behavior and obscure interaction that software-based products exhibit is institutionalizing what I call software apartheid:

Software experts are—of necessity—comfortable with high-cognitive-friction interaction. They pride themselves on their ability to work in spite of its adversity. Normal humans, who are the new users of these products, lack the expertise to judge whether this cognitive friction is avoidable.

The intractability of the software-construction process—particularly the high cost of programming and the low quality of interaction—is simply not a technical problem. It is the result of business practices imposed on a discipline—software programming—for which they are obsolete.

The key to solving the problem is interaction design before programming.

Infinite scrolling should never be employed for interfaces in which users need to get to the end of the list quickly, or need to return to a particular list item after navigating elsewhere.

place they had talked. And if the many kudos to the

You smile too much, Rey.

there are many situations in which we lose something of our humanity by militarizing discussion and debate;

La buena escritura es la que empuja al lector a un compromiso activo. El arte realmente efectivo exige que el público haga al menos la mitad del trabajo

Are you sulking now?" he asked. "Yes," she answered curtly. "OK.

Definitely looks like it," said Amber. "Thank you so much for your help." "Don't worry about it," the kid replied. "I'm assuming you'll take care of this?" He held up his bag of doughnuts so the teller could see it, and Amber smiled. "Sure thing, Walter. See you around." "Stay frosty," Walter said, and walked out.

I just hate knocking on doors. I'm the same with making phone calls when I don't know who's going to answer. I'm just not very good socially.

Well," Skulduggery said. "That was rude.

we are terrible at reading each other's thoughts. Yet we consistently behave as if we have been endowed with this entirely handsome ability.

People, in relation to each other and their environments, can unwittingly create moments of poetry.

My techniques are concerned with reading signals from people, tiny unconscious clues that betray their thoughts. I tend to see it like a game...

Every day when you leave your home you give away more than you could ever imagine about who you are and what you do.

Participant. A participant is active, a part of the process, and a necessary component of the magical experience. This is how it should be. No magic happens unless the participant perceives it as magical, so she can never be a mere spectator.

However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our co-workers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. The

The devotee looks at the deity (darshan) and the deity, with large unblinking eyes, looks back; the relationship is 'two-way' not 'one-way'.

Our behaviour towards others is based on what we see and how we process our observation.

If people around us behave like deer, it means we are behaving like lions. If people around us behave like lions, it means they see us as deer. If people around us behave like dogs, friendly or hostile, it means we matter to them.