- Looks Good Works Well: Renting an Idiomatic Experience
Fun read about idiomatic interfaces (… and instinctive and intuitive interfaces as a sidelight).
(categories: interface design usability ui ux idiomatic ) - The Temptation of the Mobile Web – Acts of Volition
Quote: If you haven’t had a real Internet phone before, and you’re a wired kind of person, there are social stresses. If you can always glance at your email or Gtalk or Twitstream, the temptation to fill any otherwise-blank moment by doing so is considerable. Your mind may find itself classifying a lull in conversation with your spouse as an “otherwise-blank moment” which turns out almost always to be inappropriate.
(categories: mobile attention life realtime psychology )