The document discusses the history and future of human communication and interface design. It explores how communication has evolved from oral to literate forms over 150,000 years, and how modern interfaces are shifting from visual to conversational models. The document advocates for designing interactions through having interactions, ensuring interfaces reflect their role in users' lives, and developing an invisible interface through principles like relevance and clarity.
13. “ Just draw a rectangle shape, maybe 5 or 6
shapes on a sheet of paper, then draw the
features you want on each view of your app.”
— Beginner’s Guide to iOS Development: The Interface
21. -Roy Bahat of Bloomberg Beta
“If we believe machine intelligence will
make our applications smarter, they
might as well just start talking to us,
“That’s why conversation
is the new interface.”
30. “Tell me, O muse, of that
ingenious hero who travelled far
and wide after he had sacked the
famous town of Troy.”
31. As a dog returns to its vomit,
so fools repeat their folly.
—Proverbs 26:11
32. “MY DEAR AND HONORED FRIEND: I have often been
desirous of writing to thee, but could not be
reconciled to the thought that the letter might fall into
the hands of the British, lest some printer or busy-
body should publish some part of the contents, and
give our friend pain, and myself censure.
47. Writing is easy.
All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper
until drops of blood form on your forehead.
—Gene Fowler , American Screenwriter and Journalist
49. “Computer literacy…is really a euphemism for
forcing human beings to stretch their thinking to
understand the inner workings of application logic,
rather than having software-enabled products
stretch to meet people’s usual ways of thinking.”
—Alan Cooper
55. “Make your contribution such as
it is required, at the stage at
which it occurs, by the accepted
purpose or direction of the talk
exchange in which you are
engaged.”
Paul Grice’s cooperative principle
56. “[Read the room and pitch in.]”
Paul Grice’s cooperative
principle