donald norman – Ruth Stalker-Firth

August 18, 2026 Musings

Performative UX: Coding at the Circus in 2026

I am currently coding a small language model (SLM) – basically I am coding some AI to chat to me and use it to demonstrate how AI works – and it should feel fantastic, or it would if all the IDEs were so unnecessarily complicated. UX has ruined coding.

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May 23, 2023 Musings

Spiderman’s eight golden rules of interface design

The first time I set a first year undergraduate exam in human-computer interaction (HCI), one of my students answered a

January 10, 2022 Musings

Coding in Minecraft (1): Chicken rain and sky writing

[0) Tenacity, 1) Chicken rain, 2) Creating classrooms, 3) Coordinates, 4) Variables] I was so cheesed off with the Microsoft denting my ‘do about