buxton

Even after reading bill buxton's book on sketching, i still catch myself trying to refine sketches just so they look nice even after an idea is explored.

Bill Buxton used to have an outstanding hour+ video called What if Leopold Didn’t Have a Piano?

Gordon Kurtenbach and Bill Buxton did an experiment that varied the number of menu items and measured the selection time and error rate.

To begin with, there is the great difference in Buxton Index.

In the meantime: Wah was going for the Buxton 100, lah.

In Sketching User Experiences, Bill Buxton tells a story about maps, where your Google Glass example breaks down: Imagine that you were kayaking off the coast of Greenland, and needed a chart to find your way.

For industry, the Buxton Index is less than 10, probably closer to 4 or 5, whereas for the academic scientist the Buxton Index is closer to, say, 50, for what you offer your students should last a lifetime, their lives, to be precise.

Bill Buxton covers this in Sketching User Interfaces when he describes Inuit coastal maps: "The Inuit have used.

Bill Buxton wrote an insightful and classic paper (one of my favorite of his many great papers) called "Lexical and Pragmatic Considerations of Input Structures" that explains what I'm getting at.

“…these examples reinforces my thesis that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function.” - Bill Buxton [1] Apologies for the apparent forcing of Eurowestern metanarrative arcs onto phenomena where no such arc may exist.

Most of Norman's and Buxton's writing on the subject tends to highlight the contextuality of design[1].

The balloon didn't land on Laura Buxton, but on a farmer who knew someone named Laura Buxton, which depending on how common that name is and how many people the farmer knew is not extremely unlikely.

Bill Buxton's analysis of wooden Inuit coastal maps is fabulous, and I would encourage reading his piece if you can find it.