37 // Visual Programming With Maggie Appleton

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Speaker 1: need to go back to my I. D. And actually change the actual code and it’s just that slight friction if you’re not actually changing the thing itself you’re like mocking it up in one and then you go back to the actual source. Well no and you know interaction design. Any amount of friction you put into a tool or an interface is just causing that much more cognitive load on the user. Speaker 2: I’m looking at X. State right now. I haven’t seen this before. It is very cool like code and flow chart diagram side by side we’ve done a bit of research on the bidirectional editing capability as part of it can switch and it can be very, very hard to do that Well if you have something like maybe a tool like apparatus would be a good example. I can like that in the show notes but something where you have the ability to do direct manipulation with dragging something with the mouse or your finger and one kind of (Time 0:40:23)

Any amount of friction you put into a tool or interface is causing additional cognitive load on the user