Drugs?…
I came across an interesting snippet of text while surfing the web recently. It goes like this:
Just as we can’t know the mind of another, we can’t truly know what they’re experiencing. We can, however, create tools with which users can have experiences… Sure, these tools … can help tremendously, but more and more we’re seeing that users will use them or bypass them in ways that we cannot control.
Now does this sound like it comes from the mind of one Timothy Leary or Aldous Huxley? But no. Actually it can be found here on Bokardo.com in an article that deals with new web interfaces. The author is talking about a new paradigm for designing interfaces in which basically content is created and the user is provided with flexible means and freedom to use the content to create an “experience” - an innovative way of navigating the content or combinations with other sources, e.g.
It’s interesting to find in the domain of interface design a text that could easily be the description of some kind of drug...
