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Timo Arnall
Personal blog · elasticspace.comdesignculture
Timo Arnall's personal blog at elasticspace.com covers design and culture. Since 2010, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “No to "No UI"”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Timo Arnall's essays on interface design and data, including 'Robot Readable World' on data-driven inference and 'No to No UI' on zero UI and interface affordances.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Timo Arnall is a designer at Apple, previously co-founder of Playdeo and creative director at BERG; the site collects 25 years of films, projects, photography and notes.
Most-linked posts?
- No to "No UI"6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2013-03-13
- A multi-screen film about the invisible infrastructures of the internet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-13
What Hacker News says?
"Robot Readable World" by Timo Arnall does a great job illustrating what's behind entirely plausible scenarios like these. http://www.elasticspace.com/2012/02/robot-readable-world
Comment linking /2012/02/robot-readable-world
on “How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did”Submitted No to "No UI" as a story · 117 points
HN discussionI've been having lots of conversations recently about the lack of affordance in touch interfaces. To some extent, this is simply because the visual language hasn't developed yet - when you see something engraved on a 3d plinth in a desktop application, you know that it's a button that can be clicked. Touch interfaces haven't got to this level yet. Pretty much the only widely used affordance I can think of is a folde…
Comment linking /2013/03/no-to-no-ui
on “High Priest of App Design”- gb · 2013-03-13
Submitted No to NoUI as a story · 18 points
HN discussion This article from 2013 does a good job describing the problems with "zero UI": http://www.elasticspace.com/2013/03/no-to-no-ui .
Comment linking /2013/03/no-to-no-ui
on “What Is Zero UI? (2015)”Submitted A multi-screen film about the invisible infrastructures of the internet as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI agree with what Isamu has pointed out I don't want to repeat those points. While this is indubitably slick and fits nicely with the whole super-sleek app-like web trend, but, the way I understand its purpose, the design of it goes totally against it. However, to add to the discussion I'd like to point to Timo Arnalls write-up on the misleading trend of invincible interfaces http://www.elasticspace.com/2013/03/no-t…
Comment linking /2013/03/no-to-no-ui
on “Colorplane, a color picker for humans (made with canvas)”Submitted No to NoUI (2013) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted No to NoUI (2013) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Augmented (hyper)Reality (video exploring consumerism and architecture) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted No to NoUI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Internet's Hidden Infrastructure as a story · 1 points
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