The Spark: Mater artium necessitas - Input Origins #17

Great interfaces rarely begin as inventions. They usually begin with someone noticing something small.

• A product manager watching Excel users struggle to move through large spreadsheets.

• A Nintendo engineer noticing someone absent-mindedly pressing calculator buttons on a train.

Moments like these don’t look like inventions at first. They just look like curiosity.

Welcome back to Input Origins, our monthly look at how humans control technology.

This time: The Spark – Mater Artium Necessitas.

A short look at how new input methods often begin with simple observations.

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Input Origins is published on the last Thursday of every month.

Series editor: Ariel Amar 

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