I love formalisms. My research is all about constructing new formal representations of ideas using programming languages techniques (and right now those ideas happen to be in data visualization).

I remember when Emery Berger explained that Excel bugs bubbled up to misguided economic policies. (Until recently) I’ve tried to avoid Jupyter notebooks as much as possible. I hate chasing down NaNs in plain JS code.

Yet the popularity of these tools is hard to ignore. Excel is arguably the most popular programming language (again, thanks to Emery Berger’s talk for this). Jupyter notebooks are many scientists’ day-to-day programming interfaces. And JavaScript still rules the web.

Discusses an influential paper of the same name. Definitely much to think about here; feeling much synergy with The Score.

see: https://link.springer.com/journal/10606

Understand the minds you design for and the mind you design with.

Article goes into details (and plenty of examples) on how animations can (and often do) get in the way of creating a sensible UX.

Announcement post for the override-utils Nix package

A very compelling application of lenses!

An exploration of Gnome’s many failings and how to fix it.

Agents can make one-off apps, but they’re usually toys. I show how we might bring malleability and composability to the kind of deep interfaces that experts live in all day—demonstrated in a writing environment, but applicable to all serious software. Little serious reading software exists, so I propose and demonstrate a new kind of malleable digital reading environment focused on expert use.

But malleable interfaces aren’t enough. Historically, inventing interfaces has required imaginative design skill, deep domain insight, and fluent programming. Few have all three, but programming is the only skill that can produce working software on its own—so interface invention culture is dominated by programmers. I share early reports of how coding agents are changing that, and what it might mean for the people and institutions inventing interfaces today.

let’s talk

Very beautiful hypermedia desktop environment powered by Patchwork. At the same time, I’m a bit disturbed by how involved LLMs have become in the I&S process.

Keep Unwanted States Representable

Keep Unwanted States Representable

A collection of patterns/laws related to UX, some of them well known, some of them not so much, but really handy to have that.

Every escape hatch is a pit trap

PANE is a live, functional programming environment built around data-visibility. In PANE, all intermediate values are visible by default, and you construct a program by acting on these concrete values.

MIT engineers designed an ultrasound wristband that precisely tracks a wearer’s hand movements in real time and communicates the information to a robot or a virtual environment.

Get this shit in VRChat, pls; thank you :)

Over the past decade, I’ve worked to build the perfect family dashboard system for our home, called Timeframe

I need this in my house SOOOOOO BAD!