ColorSym is a free, open-source color-identification system that pairs every color with a unique, memorable symbol. When color alone isn’t enough to tell things apart, the symbol does the job, so the roughly 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women with color vision deficiency can read your components, charts, or UI with confidence.

• https://github.com/luisfrancisco/colorsym
• https://colorsym.com/

They go over how the web and frameworks decided against horizontal, apart from deliberate emphasis, they go over some desktop layout attempts, failures and successes (more of the same vs navigation), a chapter about (paper) documents as the source, and endless panes now using horizontal.

From the description:

Almost every screen we use is a landscape rectangle, wider than it is tall. And on almost all of them, the content moves vertically. Always down.

This video walks through a wrong question. If mobile scrolls down, why doesn’t the desktop scroll sideways?

The question turns out to be wrong.

Chapters

• [00:00] Introduction
• [01:23] The Web Could, and Doesn’t
• [03:18] The Microsoft Bet - Windows 8 “Metro”/“Modern” failure
• [06:18] What Makes a Difference - Layouts where horizontal works
• [09:14] Horizontal Scrolling as Emphasis
• [10:24] When Horizontal Axis Means Something
• [12:13] The Document Model
• [14:06] The Potential of a Glass Plane

References

• Tim Berners-Lee, Information Management: A Proposal, CERN, March 1989 : http://w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html
• Tim Berners-Lee, HTML Tags, late 1991: http://w3.org/History/19921103-hypert…
• Jeremy Keith, A Brief History of Markup, A List Apart, 4 May 2010: http://alistapart.com/article/a-brief…
• MDN Web Docs, overflow: http://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do…
• Chen Hui Jing, The horizontal overflow problem: http://chenhuijing.com/blog/the-horiz…
• Beware Horizontal Scrolling and Mimicking Swipe on Desktop: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/hori…
• Responsive Web Design: https://alistapart.com/article/respon…
• Building Windows 8: • Building Windows 8
• Niri Wayland Compositor: https://github.com/niri-wm/niri
• macOS Spaces: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide…
• Myspace shows off redesign, promises invites soon https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-new…

This talk focuses on that evil little term “UX/UI,” which is responsible for so much confusion and tension in open-source projects. Not only does it unnecessarily pit programmers against designers, but it also limits our vision of what we could be doing.

In this talk, Scott Jenson gives examples of how focusing on UX – instead of UI – frees us to think bigger. This is especially true for the desktop, where the user experience has so much potential to grow well beyond its current interaction models. The desktop UX is certainly not dead, and this talk suggests some future directions we could take.

Scott Jenson has been a leader in UX design and strategic planning for over 35 years. He was the first member of Apple’s Human Interface group in the late '80s, and has since held key roles at several major tech companies. He served as Director of Product Design for Symbian in London, managed Mobile UX design at Google, and was Creative Director at frog design in San Francisco. He returned to Google to do UX research for Android and is now a UX strategist in the open-source community for Mastodon and Home Assistant.

They present a bit of history, terminology, and current and alternative approaches to human interfaces.