Our interfaces have lost their senses

Close to the Metal — Real Life

The value of reintroducing friction into our interactions with computers

an elegy for the pencil

how computers changed the way we write

Design outside the computer

Your digital UI can come from the physical world.

Feeling of Computing — Conversations

Desktop, Touch, Browser, Now AI? The Next OS in Computing

Explore how AI is reshaping human-computer interaction, from command lines to modern SaaS. Key insights on the next computing paradigm for startups and tech leaders.

All that is solid melts into code

More computer, rather than more human.

Telepath: building a new kind of computer

So, we made a thing: Let’s back up: for as long as I can remember, I’ve been obsessed with computers, fascinated not just by what they can do but what they could become. Like many, I took my early inspiration from science fiction. I dreamed of someday having something like the Enterprise’s computer. And why not? Science fiction has always driven scientists, engineers, and inventors to create real things that change the world.

Learning From Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces

How we overvalue the wrong technology and novel aspects of interface design at the expense of substantial gains to our productivity.

Why Do We Interface?

In this micro book we look at the past, present, and future of interfaces and how they allow us to utilize information in ways that change what it means to be human.

Feeling of Computing

Feeling of Computing is an online community with a welcoming, cooperative, and revolutionary spirit. We are unified in the belief that the computer is tragically less humane than it could be. There’s a world of possibilities that get more beautiful the further away from the norm you go. We’re here to explore this world together, to discuss ideas about theory and practice, and to champion and support our members’ research and development efforts to reimagine the computer.

Motivating Adult Learners by Introducing Programming Concepts with Scratch

Novice programmers usually fail to combine abstract concepts and knowledge into program design, even though they know the syntax and semantics of individual statement. Adult novice programmers with little computer background knowledge might face more ...

The education of a computer