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Bill Higgins
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Bill Higgins's personal blog at billhiggins.us covers programming, design and career. Since 2007, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The Uncanny Valley of User Interface Design”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite this post on how faster websites change user expectations, comparing web-app responsiveness to desktop software and the 'uncanny valley' of web applications.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Bill Higgins: IBM VP and Distinguished Engineer, writing about strategy and intelligence.
Most-linked posts?
- The Uncanny Valley of User Interface Design2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-05-18
What Hacker News says?
- bd · 2009-01-01
This can be another facet of the "uncanny valley" of web applications [1]. When you are in the "web" mode, you operate asynchronously - click, do something unrelated, return to see the result. When you are in the "desktop" mode, you expect instant reactions. If it's just a tiny bit slower, you feel something is broken [2]. Now as you make your site more ajaxy and faster, user expectations change, instead of perceivi…
Comment linking /weblog/2007/05/17/the-uncanny-valley-of-user-interface-design/
on “Faster sites mean users do more stuff” Submitted The value of UI consistency ('different is hard') as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Uncanny Valley of User Interface Design as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted RESTy long-ops, how to model long running processes in a REST API as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Uncanny Valley of user interface design as a story · 1 points
HN discussion