Thanks to all the Bilians who came out to hear about Lightful this year, all the great feedback, comments and questions!

Try this:

Keep these nine Lightful principles next to your own computer, and note how many times per day it violates each one of them.

MODELESS
The same action, performed on the same object, never results in a different outcome.

MONOTONOUS
Rather than choosing among multiple ways to issue a command, there is exactly one way to achieve any given task.

SUBSERVIENT
Assume your users are intelligent. Assume your users are busy.

INTERRUPTIBLE
Nothing your computer is… Continue