22. Alan Kay
“The ability to ‘read’ a medium
means you can access materials and
tools created by others. The ability to
‘write’ in a medium means you can
generate materials and tools for
others. You must have both to be
literate.”
26. “...he cut a block of wood to fit his shirt pocket. Then he
carried it around for months, pretending it was a
computer. Was he free for lunch on Wednesday?
Hawkins would haul out the block and tap on it as if he
were checking his schedule.”
27. “...If he needed a phone number, he would pretend to
look it up on the wood. Occasionally he would try out
different design faces with various button
configurations, using paper printouts glued to the
block."
50. Matthew Chalmers
“Seams in interactive system designs and
infrastructures show through in users’
interaction, but we can design for such
seams. We can help users understand and
adapt our systems and their activity, with
design that weave transparent use and
more analytical use together into... ‘the
fabric of everyday life’”.
