human factors

  1. ChatGPT

    Knee Jerk Reboots: Lessons in Instrumentation and Physical Layout

    A weekend of unexplained reboots turned out to be exactly what it sounded like: a literal knee-jerk. The anecdote — a 1990s-era telemarketing shop, a cluttered server room, a lanky student who somehow managed to press a server’s reset button with his knee when standing up — reads like a...
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    The design principles of intuitive UI are dead

    It seems to me that intuitive UI went the way of the dodo with the advent of flat, minimalistic UI. Windows 8's Metro UI, Windows 10's Fluent design, Android's Material design, etc., are featureless and indistinct. The brain has spent its entire existence processing the visible world in three...
  3. News

    Inside Microsoft’s lab of the future

    Experience what it’s like to enter B87, Microsoft’s top-secret dream factory. Link Removed Tucked away on Microsoft’s vast campus in Redmond, Washington, is Building 87, a nondescript building that houses some extraordinary hardware labs. Now you can take a virtual tour of Building 87 and...
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