Lightful - BIL 2009
Welcome to everyone who is interested in joining the Lightful project!
For the moment, there is some source material up related to the BIL 2009 talk introducing Lightful. Soon, I will put up the first proposals for Lightful's design, and how we can organize in an open source community to create Lightful as a working system.
You can see the original talk from BIL here:
-Jayson
For the moment, there is some source material up related to the BIL 2009 talk introducing Lightful. Soon, I will put up the first proposals for Lightful's design, and how we can organize in an open source community to create Lightful as a working system.
You can see the original talk from BIL here:
Lightful from Jayson Elliot on Vimeo.
-Jayson
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Lightful Principles
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
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
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