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Schmidt

I wrote this thing for a zine that never happened, then sat on it for two years, and anyway: Who wants to spend their Saturday morning reading about AR/VR HCI design?

Bilgi Karan
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Any way we can get the text version? Looks very interesting.

Schmidt
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Just for you: andrewschmidt.net/posts/the-conv…

The conviction we’re missing — Andrew Schmidt
I can’t get over touchscreens. I can’t get over the move they made; the pivot — not in a Silicon Valley sense, but in a basketball-player-pivoting-toward-a-shot-sense. Touchscreens really made a move, a full step beyond the mouse and cursor, a move so foundational that I can’t get over it. It’s ab
Bilgi Karan
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So poetic and insightful. Maybe it is tangential but I worked on some basics for pre-iPhone smart phones. One of the most important leaps was the understanding of touch targets.

Schmidt
Replying to @bilgi

That’s interesting! In terms of their visual affordances, or size, or…?