Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Objectivism and Usability

I've been thinking a lot about the intersection of the Objectivist philosophy and usability/user interface design. Just a few notes for now--I'm going to flesh out these ideas much more in weeks to come.

Gestalt psychology: Horrible psychological nonsense brought to you courtesy of Immanuel Kant and friends. Deterministic in nature. However, what the researchers found was valid. But I think this can be explained by Crow Epistemology.

Mental models: This is akin to psycho-epistemology. Will dig into this further.

I think I may start a new blog on the subject.