About the Author
Clay Barnes holds a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Arizona, and an M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He currently works as the user interface architect in GE Energy’s software innovation team for the entire wind product line. He previously worked for Intrigo as a user experience specialist when living in Tucson. For those interested, his current résumé is available in PDF.
His e-mail account is 
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To e-mail securely (or verify the authenticity of a message), you need either my GPG Public Key on this server, the one on MIT’s PGP server, or the one in the PGP Global Directory. Note that this supersedes the previous key, which was only valid until July 2008.
About the New Interface Advocate
Recent Entries
- Revised and Expanded RegEx Reference Chart (v2.0)
- New Blog Design
- Less is More—Interface Simplification for Vending Machines
- Lessons from an Etch-a-Sketch—Implications for HCI
- Improved Error Dialog Box
- Lumiera Timeline First Draft
- C* Music Player Audioscrobbler/Last.fm patch
- Everybody Loves Regular Expressions!
- Search Done Right—A *Progressive* Progressive Find
- Handy scripts!
- The only two interface designs ever conceived:
- The misused mouse, part 2: A proposal for a nearly mouseless interface.
- The misused mouse, part 1: The story of the mouse’s decline
- Throw out that mouse—you upgraded to a keyboard!
- Fitts’ law vs. mice, tablets, & trackballs