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Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
youtu.beBret Victor, beast of burden
worrydream.comBret Victor: email (9/3/04)Interface matters to me more than anything else, and it always has. I just never realized that. I've spent a lot of time over the years desperately trying to think of a "thing" to change the world. I now know why the search was fruitless -- things don't change the world. People change the world by using things. The focus ... See more
Bret Victor • Bret Victor, beast of burden
- You should always aim for direct manipulation of systems you're trying to change, because that results in the tightest feedback loop.
- To understand what I mean, watch Bret Victor's talk Inventing on Principle.
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Wilson Miner - When We Build
vimeo.comAs you explore this document, imagine a world where we expect every claim to be accompanied by an explorable analysis, and every statistic to be linked to a primary source. Imagine collecting data and designing analyses in a collaborative wiki-like manner.
Bret Victor • Bret Victor, beast of burden
Victor practices what he preaches: he doesn’t use computers to build better mousetraps, but to explore and communicate ideas in a way that uniquely exploits the properties and possibilities of a programmable, dynamic, interactive medium.
medium.com • The Utopian UI Architect
What Alan Kay has been emphasizing, and which is now at the heart of Bret Victor’s design philosophy, is that the computer is a “dynamic medium.” The essence of a computer is not the keyboard, the mouse, and the screen. It’s computational and responsive capabilities that don’t exist in a static medium like paper. We should use this dynamic medium t... See more