A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design ⇥

Bret Victor:

Is that so bad, to dump the tactile for the visual? Try this: close your eyes and tie your shoelaces. No problem at all, right? Now, how well do you think you could tie your shoes if your arm was asleep? Or even if your fingers were numb? When working with our hands, touch does the driving, and vision helps out from the back seat.

It’s a disconnect between the presentation of expectation, and the reality of the represented objects.