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Ben Shneiderman presents eight foundational principles for interface design that have shaped HCI practice for three decades. The rules address consistency, universal usability, informative feedback, closure, error prevention, reversibility, user control, and cognitive load. These principles, derived from experience and continuously refined, provide a practical framework applicable across desktop, web, and mobile environments.
Adi Leviim argues that the chat box interface became the default for AI products not through thoughtful design but through shipping convenience: it was the fastest UI to build around LLMs' text-generation capabilities in 2022. The essay contends that this default choice sacrifices decades of established interface design principles, maximizing both the gulf of execution and gulf of evaluation, forcing users into iterative refinement loops when they should have direct manipulation and structured information surfaces.
Annotation of So, Cheng & Krishna Murthy (2026). CHI EA '26. Proposes a spectrum of LLM interface metaphors from anti- to hyper-anthropomorphism to encourage critical engagement.
Annotation of Masure (2019). Interface Critique no. 2. Argues against user-centered design as a reductive framing, tracing from Xerox Star through Don Norman to experience design.
Running scratchpad for the Guildford conference talk. Ideas as they arrive.
Anthony Masure traces UCD from Xerox Star through Don Norman, arguing that design cannot be centered on anything. A world built on invisible technology is a world without experience.