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For most software, interactivity is a curse for users and a crutch for designers.

Drawn from what Bret Victor said

Subjectdesign

design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

On the topicWhat does the interface become when a model is on the other side?under our view: The interface is going away: the user states an intent, and agents and generated interfaces do the rest

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What Bret Victor actually said

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  1. Bret Victor

    Interface designer and researcher

    For a majority subset of software, called “information software,” I argue that interactivity is actually a curse for users and a crutch for designers, and users’ goals can be better satisfied through other means.

    Where this was said

    ↗Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interfaceworrydream.com

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