I’m wondering why people break things when they create new versions.
Firefox used to open a discreet little window when you downloaded papers. Now-a-days it opens a full screen window completely hiding the browser.
A minor issue, but makes me wonder about both new versions and also defaults and personalisation in general.
A few weeks ago I had a short visit to Berlin as a guest of Prometei, a PhD training program at the University of Technology of Berlin focused on “prospective engineering of human-technology-interaction”. While there I gave an evening talk on “Designing for adoption and designing for appropriation” and spent a very pleasant afternoon seminar with the students on “Physicality and Interaction”.
I said I would send some links, so this is both a short report on the visit and also a few links to appropriation and adoption and a big long list of links to physicality!