Right at the point of one of the technical mishaps you were mid way through a point that I really wanted you to finish.

You started to say something about how all designers should be programmers so that they understand how the computer works. Obviously you didn’t finish this statement so I am really curious what your philosophy is on this.

Personally I am not sure I agree if this is your entire statement. In my opinion I think because developers have been the ones designing software, it is for this reason we are where we are. No offense to developers because they are a very important clog in the wheel, it just that they do think like a computer not like the average human. Thus designers (mainly interaction designers) are essential if we are every going to make computers work they way humans think.

I am becoming a big fan of your work and your ideas because you think out of the box and your innovations make sense. Some of the could use a more intuitive interface but none the less they are very cool.

To me designers and developers think from different sides of their brains and thus in most cases both are necessary and each should focus on what they do best rather than trying to do something that is unnatural to them.

So please finish your thoughts on this, I am very curious.

BTW – I love the concept of ubiquity but I often get confused with what I am supposed to do next after I have acquired my results. i.e tinyurl – I see the results but often struggle trying to get the results to go some where else.

Simple things like copy and paste (old style computing) don’t work thus it gets frustrating. Feedback on this as well would be nice.

Keep up the awesome work.
~ Christian

I didn’t have a laser pointer — clearly something was wrong if you guys thought I did — but the zoom technique sounds intriguing.