The one-dimensional pipe between two high-dimensional minds
Text prompts force signal loss when translating visual or spatial tasks, creating strain that has become more noticeable as AI interaction shifts paradigms.
AI systems that rely on text prompts force visual tasks into a text medium, causing loss of signal and reversing decades of direct manipulation progress.
The Mac calculator's original design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for ten minutes
Interactive parameter controls let decision-makers rapidly produce preferred designs without verbalizing preferences, as Jobs did to create the classic Macintosh calculator.