Welcome to Black Box Blog! The purpose of this blog is to examine and critique computer interfaces. Among software developers, interfaces are sometimes known as "black boxes", because they show their external workings to users but hide their internal workings. In other words, they show what they do, but hide how they do it. Our interactions with these black boxes increasingly constitute our interaction with the modern world. This blog is dedicated to examining the ways that current popular interfaces work and don't work, and particularly to suggesting ways that they might be improved.
I am both a
writer and software developer by trade, and I intend to bring my inside-the-box knowledge to this blog, but to write it from the perspective of the user on the outside. The end goal is to help build better black boxes.
Feel free to send me your suggestions for software you'd like to see reviewed.
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