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Dan Saffer
Personal blog · odannyboy.medium.comdesignphilosophy
Dan Saffer's personal blog at odannyboy.medium.com covers design and philosophy. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Cited on HN for posts on interface design: why movie-style sci-fi UIs are impractical in real use, and Tesler's Law on whether complexity is handled by the system or the user. Comments cite these posts as support, without judging them.
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What Hacker News says?
Unfortunately, it turns out that waving your hands in the air for long periods of time is exhausting. UIs that look great in movies sometimes aren't practical in real life. https://odannyboy.medium.com/why-you-want-but-wont-like-a-mi...
Comment linking /why-you-want-but-wont-like-a-minority-report-style-interface-626d0fd6096b
on “Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework”Submitted Notes on Donald Shön's the Reflective Practitioner as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTesler’s Law, also known as "The Law of Conservation of Complexity", states that for any system there is a certain amount of complexity which cannot be reduced. No matter which side you choose, complexity just doesn’t go away. All processes have a core of complexity that cannot be designed away. The only question is what handles it: "the system", or "the user". By creating a control, the designer is making a choice,…
Comment linking /controls-are-choices-7de90363d0dd
on “Tesler’s Law”