July 2010
1 post
Appealing to the masses by designing for the lazy
The standards and trends we tap into today haven’t always been standards; they were once innovative user interfaces. Consider the introduction of windowing, the introduction of a pointing device, to the introduction of mega-menus, breadcrumbs, and reductive filtering - all considered innovative and dangerous. Why did these conventions become so ubiquitous, while other interfaces fell to the...