Fitts's law: why the menu bar is at the top(milos.fyi)
7 points by mmilanovic4 | 0 comments
Blog post explaining Fitts's law and why placing the menu bar at the screen's top edge makes it faster to target.
#hci on Hacker News
7 stories tagged hci, newest first.
Four CHI '26 papers I wish I wrote(countingfromzero.blog)
40 points by luu | 10 comments
A blog post on Counting From Zero highlighting four papers from the CHI 2026 human-computer interaction conference that the author admires.
Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
411 points by e-topy | 602 comments
An Ask HN thread where the poster seeks suggestions for novel, uncrowded technical hobbies they could meaningfully contribute to.
The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)(dl.acm.org)
326 points by ksec | 235 comments
ACM Digital Library page for a 1996 CHI paper describing the usability engineering process behind the Windows 95 user interface; captured as a Cloudflare check.
Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs(geoffreylitt.com)
902 points by walterbell | 249 comments
Geoffrey Litt's blog post arguing that AI should be designed as heads-up displays augmenting perception rather than copilot agents, drawing on Mark Weiser's 1992 critique.
Hidden interface controls that affect usability(interactions.acm.org)
538 points by cxr | 382 comments
ACM Interactions feature by Philip Kortum arguing that hidden interface controls harm usability, drawing on Engelbart and Norman's knowledge-in-the-world concept.
Golden Rules of Interface Design (2013)(cs.umd.edu)
326 points by luu | 155 comments
Ben Shneiderman's page at the University of Maryland listing his Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design, from Designing the User Interface.