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“...задача дизайнеров заключается в том, чтобы создавать интерфейсы, которые не позволяют привычкам вызывать проблемы у пользователей. Мы должны создавать интерфейсы, которые, во-первых, целенаправленно опираются на человеческую способность формировать привычки и, во-вторых, развивают у пользователей такие привычки, которые позволяют упростить ход работы. В случае идеального человекоориентированного интерфейса доля участия самого интерфейса в работе пользователя должна сводиться к формированию полезных привычек. Многие проблемы, которые делают программные продукты сложными и неудобными в использовании, происходят из-за того, что в используемом интерфейсе «человек-машина» не учитываются полезные и вредные свойства человеческой способности формировать привычки.”

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Book:The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
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“Often interfaces are assumed to be synonymous with media itself. But what would it mean to say that “interface” and “media” are two names for the same thing? The answer is found in the remediation or layer model of media, broached already in the introduction, wherein media are essentially nothing but formal containers housing other pieces of media. This is a claim most clearly elaborated on the opening pages of Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media. McLuhan liked to articulate this claim in terms of media history: a new medium is invented, and as such its role is as a container for a previous media format. So, film is invented at the tail end of the nineteenth century as a container for photography, music, and various theatrical formats like vaudeville. What is video but a container for film. What is the Web but a container for text, image, video clips, and so on. Like the layers of an onion, one format encircles another, and it is media all the way down. This definition is well-established today, and it is a very short leap from there to the idea of interface, for the interface becomes the point of transition between different mediatic layers within any nested system. The interface is an “agitation” or generative friction between different formats. In computer science, this happens very literally; an “interface” is the name given to the way in which one glob of code can interact with another. Since any given format finds its identity merely in the fact that it is a container for another format, the concept of interface and medium quickly collapse into one and the same thing.”

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Author:Alexander R. Galloway
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“A similar argument can be made about the form that the interface takes—with little pictures of folders and pages and trash cans. Those analogies are based in physical forms and so we associate the simplicity of the physical folder with that of the digital one. At best, we have faith in the interface that it is an accurate simplification of a more complex system behind it, and at worse, we don’t even recognize the complexity at all.”

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Book:Solving Critical Design Problems: Theory and Practice
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“How is the body, including the observing body, becoming a component of new machines, economies, apparatuses, whether social, libidinal, or technological? In what way is subjectivity becoming a precarious condition of interface between rationalized systems of exchange and networks of information?”

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Book:Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
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