Three Hypotheses of Human Interface Design

Excellent ideas, all very intuitive and actionable.

Also, I agree with the author that it is annoying when you have a good idea and you can't figure out if there is prior art or not. All you can really do is start calling up professors in your rolodex, but it's hard when it's something that is somewhere in between three or four different fields, but not really a part of any of them.