Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations also has many gems that speak to interface design PI 122: "A main source of failure to understand is that we don’t have an overview of the use of our words — Our grammar is deficient in surveyability...
Reading Wittgenstein's Tractatus as an interface design guide. It's a very interesting (and weird) lens for it.pic.twitter.com/OQGyWa3zV3
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... A surveyable representation produces the kind of understanding which consists in ‘seeing connections’. Hence the importance of finding and inventing intermediate links." "[surveyable representations] characterize the way we represent things, how we look at matters."
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Possibly the only lens for Wittgenstein that makes any sense?
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i think he's talking about Lisp
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like reading the fever dream origins of LISP and CLI. It's fun to think that our lineage of knowledge engineers extends back to Wittgenstein and AN Whitehead.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Proposition 7 is probably the most prescriptive.
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His lager switch from ideal to everyday language contains lots more and more concrete examples of UI design. Don‘t miss out on it!
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Tried to read it once. Didn't go well :/
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Notations are the user interface for formal reasoning. I suspect Leibniz was already aware of this. And it's worth taking it into account when using computers: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09307
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