THE FUTURE OF INTERACTION DESIGN
A very timely article especially with the current pace of technological advancement. I totally agree with Bret Victor that interaction finds its truest meaning when the capabilities of human beings are amplified through the tools/invention used to make work easier. These tools are meant to make work easier and not to do away with it altogether. I think with the growing technological development drawing a line between increasing efficiency and reducing tactility is becoming harder by the day. Interaction at least as I know it has to involve meaning back and forth engagement between the tool and the user. Therefore designers should refrain from “doing everything” for the user in the name of increasing efficiency but like Bret has committed to his readers they should start thinking about how to increase the interaction experience of the users and making them become more aware of their capabilities in an efficient way and not the opposite. As Bret puts it in his follow up article; we need to aim for “dynamic mediums that we can see, feel, and manipulate”