cognitive psychology. PhD 
What makes graphical user interfaces fundamentally challenging to implement, even for experienced practitioners? Please send me your favorite papers, talks, blog posts on this subject! (see caveats below)
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Brad Myers. "Why are Human-Computer Interfaces Difficult to Design and Implement?" 1993pic.twitter.com/TWkh875u5l
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Also found useful: * Goyal et al. "Is GUI Programming a Database Research Problem?" 1996 * Sofie Goderis. "On the Separation of User Interface Concerns" 2008 * Perez and Nilsson."Bridging the GUI Gap with Reactive Values and Relations" 2015
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will citation machine op as always
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So this was the first article I went for, and I think that only 4/9 of these really strike at the problem I'm focusing on: programming in terms of subroutines; handling all possible inputs; poor language support; and difficulty of modularization.
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The rest seem kind of orthogonal: that we should be developing iteratively and not using the waterfall method; that regression testing is especially hard; that frameworks have thick manuals—all of this is important, but ultimately not about challenges in expressivity.
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... It's a good thing that things have changed so much the past, uh, 28 years.
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