frontwheeldrive, new science and new media, should appeal to regular psyberspace readers. There's a nice interview of of W. Gibson.

3/4/2000 8:40:20 AM

Slashdot | Interviews | Jakob Nielsen Answers Usability Questions takes Nielson in some new directions with commentary on OS issues and a topic area of a sophisticated interface with a high volume of usage by expert users. Good stuff. (I promise, my next entry won't reference JN)

I also believe we need more information-rich interfaces as I was discussing above. I think the current Macintosh-style UI will be turned inside-out and we will start to manage information objects depending on a much larger set of attributes than simply their name and hierarchical placement. In particular, history and other time-based attributes will become more important. When did I last touch this object? What other things were I doing at the time?

Here, here!

3/3/2000 10:09:53 PM

FoRK Archive: Jakob Nielsen's slew of patents is quite disturbing. I'll have to read the patent on web tooltips, it can't be as general as is sounds. The one that disturbed me most, in light of my work here on reading enhancements, is "Method and apparatus for eyetrack-driven text enlargement".

I'm hopeful that simple camera equipment with CPU/dedicated process image recognitino will soon provide enhanced coupling between user and computer.

2/27/2000 1:51:03 PM