I recently read Pick, Click, Flick!: The Story of Interaction Techniques, the 800-page tome on computer interaction techniques by Professor Brad A. Myers of Carnegie Mellon University. When I was a student at CMU, I took Professor Myers’ course on interaction techniques and even contributed some content that made it to the book; so I didn’t exactly go in blind. Reading the book made me think of an entirely different text: an 18th-century Polish encyclopedia. Nowe Ateny starts its entry fo...
