https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/public/ recent bookmarks from mcmorgan 2021-07-03T15:27:11+00:00 https://daringfireball.net/2021/07/safari_15_public_betas_for_mac_and_ios mcmorgan One can only presume that Apple’s HI team thinks they’re reducing needless “clutter”, but what they’re doing is systematically removing the coherence between what apps look like and the functionality they offer. Gruber offers up some good UI design principles on his weay to a solid UI critique of the beta Safari. I used the beta. I removed it. What’s interesting is considering why oh why oh why Apple designers, who know their stuff, are considering *these* changes that seem to break the coherence of the interface unnecessarily. It’s a *beta* of course. Maybe they’re trying to settle an internal designer war. Gruber quotes Heer, > > I see it as an extension of what Maciej Cegłowski memorably called “chickenshit minimalism”. He defined it as “the illusion of simplicity backed by megabytes of cruft”; I see parallels in a “junk drawer” approach that prioritizes the appearance of simplicity over functional clarity. It adds complexity because it reduces clutter, and it allows UI designers to avoid making choices about interface hierarchy by burying everything but the most critical elements behind vague controls. And Gruber offers this: > It’s worse. It just looks simpler. All the old functionality remains — it’s just harder to access, harder to discover intuitively, and more distracting. One can only presume that Apple’s HI team thinks they’re reducing needless “clutter”, but what they’re doing is systematically removing the coherence between what apps look like and the functionality they offer. I wish Apple would come up with *significant* updates. More emoji and dynamic address bars (stuff we need to use *shouldn’t move*!) are not updates.]]> interface design usability apple https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:848c0f80b762/ 2021-04-09T16:18:51+00:00 https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2021/04/09/people_complicate_things/ mcmorgan The researchers seem to have discovered a heuristic that people are biased towards creating solutions by adding features rather than taking them away. A study also observed the tendency at an organisational level. The interesting bit is that *they don’t even consider subtractive options*.]]> heuristics design https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:c45b91e22b63/ 2018-10-19T14:29:17+00:00 http://hackeducation.com/2018/10/18/skinner mcmorgan I would argue, in total seriousness, that one of the places that Skinnerism thrives today is in computing technologies, particularly in “social” technologies. This, despite the field’s insistence that its development is a result, in part, of the cognitive turn that supposedly displaced behaviorism. Add to this the LMS, education design, the modern nation state. Cog science never replaced the Skinner box. ]]> design history behaviorism education https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:3684af84eeb6/ 2015-06-21T16:07:34+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_7_EMjjysA&feature=youtu.be&a mcmorgan DH design opensource semiotics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:8fe363a4e6e2/ 2015-05-19T00:37:17+00:00 https://medium.com/backchannel/the-failed-promise-of-deep-links-aa307b3abaa5 mcmorgan ia fedwiki hypertext design links linking DevonThink https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:cc43695b1595/ 2015-03-24T21:26:19+00:00 http://thenextweb.com/dd/2015/03/24/how-to-create-visual-relationships-with-contrast-similarity/ mcmorgan webdesign design wcw erhetoric https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:876d15676cc6/ 2015-03-06T17:36:29+00:00 http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2015/03/design-elements-in-personal-learning.html mcmorgan ple design https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:09924f45f87d/ 2014-09-11T18:13:02+00:00 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freelancing writing https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:bc209e69384c/ 2010-08-12T14:23:08+00:00 http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu/images/flash_projects/john-morph.html mcmorgan writing history the_page design fyc https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:1ea6966acc80/ 2010-06-11T15:18:28+00:00 http://ple.elg.ca/course/?p=33 mcmorgan critical_thinking design information_design visualization networks networking #CritLit2010 https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:b681aecd24ce/ 2010-06-10T13:32:29+00:00 http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2010/06/09/todays-guardian.php#section-summary mcmorgan weddesign wcw design https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:28273a33d335/ 2010-04-23T16:17:15+00:00 http://informationarchitects.jp/designing-for-ipad-reality-check/ mcmorganipad usability design IA interface reading https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:3af5dedd21ef/ 2010-03-05T22:58:57+00:00 http://craigmod.com/journal/ipad_and_books/ mcmorganPrint iPad Publishing Design author2.0 ebook reading usability 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Collect enough data entries and patterns begin to emerge. Visualizations are at Keep this project in sight. It's likely to be useful in classes, but it will also become news soon. ]]> visualization twitter socialmedia design statistics https://pinboard.in/u:mcmorgan/b:7d00bba7fd9f/ 2009-07-19T12:47:10+00:00 http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2009/07/social-media-learning-principles.html mcmorgan is the universal acid of the web – we should build around it. 2. Simple with reach trumps complex with small audience. 3. Sharing is a motivation to participation - so make it easy and rewarding to do. 4. Start simple and let others build on top 5. Providing limitations frames input (Cf twitter, 12seconds, etc) 6. 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