Categories: DesignTheory

Design considerations for little fingers

We’re all familiar with the concept of “natural selection,” it is the evolutionary process in which biological traits become more or less common through genetics as a result of interactions with the environment. But, what term describes the process in which mechanical objects, such as interfaces, evolve? Mechanical Evolution? Progressive Adaptation?

Artificial Selection is the gradual, predetermined process in which interface elements and components change as a result of observing a user’s interactions. The interface adaptations are made possible by external and historical information about the user.

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Rob Cowie

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