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Ask HN: Books or blogs on contemporary interface philosophy?

6 points by tinkerert ↗ HN
The best reads I've found in this category consists mostly of interface guidelines from the 1990s and early 2000s.

Books like Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines and The Humane Interface. They're fun to read in a novel sense, but most of the information is not really applicable today.

Would be interesting to find any reads on thinking outside the WIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointer) perspective, but I guess it's way too niche.

Experimental, theoretical, philosopical etc. Anything of interest. Preferably traditional 2D interface environments.

Any modern looks on this, from this decade or so?

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tra3
+1. Would love a UI primer for developers.
nicbou
A bit out of left field: The Best Interface Is No Interface. The blog post is good enough; no need to read the whole book I think

Don't Make Me Think is old but still applicable.

Sweat The Small Stuff by Rory Sutherland is a talk worth watching.

rhbrolo
"The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman

"Refactoring UI" by Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger (creators of Tailwind)