Author Charles Hannon

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Charles Hannon is professor of computing and information studies at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania. He teaches courses in human-computer interaction, the history of information technology, information visualization, and project management. His research interests lie at the intersection of language, cognition, and usability. He also writes about William Faulkner, and is the author of Faulkner and the Discourses of Culture (2005), which won the C. Hugh Holman prize in southern literary studies.

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This Interface Is A (Good) Joke!

April 27, 2016 — For a few years now, a mild debate has simmered over “delightful” interaction design. For some, features that instill delight, as long as they don’t interfere with the fundamental capabilities of the system, sit with pleasure atop Maslow’s hierarchy of needs as … Read More…

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Design Patterns: You Already Know How To Use It

September 25, 2012 — In the first television advertisement for the iPad, the narrator intoned, “It’s crazy powerful. It’s magical. You already know how to use it.” This was an astonishing claim. Here was a new, market-defining, revolutionary device, unlike anything we had seen before, and we … Read More…