HCI Nerdz

Honest surfaces. Lower cognitive tax. HCI and UI/UX innovation for interfaces that respect how minds work.

Shell and CLI standards live at our sibling org, openshellorg.

What we fight for

The bug is often discoverability and product representation — not missing backend capability.

Surfaces tell the truth Severity, success, settings, and theme must match reality. Lying chrome erodes trust.
Human intuition over backwards convention Temporary migration pain beats permanent, compounding inconvenience.
First-class UI for real jobs Power-user search syntax is not a substitute for filters people actually use.
Attention is not inventory Tools should be minimally invasive on attention. Heirloom software over dopamine products.

Essays on HCI, UI, and UX — separate from org news.

August 2, 2026 Sequence as the top-level: pipeline composer interfaces
When a system applies rules in order, the processing-map surface should show that order as one spine — not scatter steps across settings pages until the machine contradicts itself.
August 2, 2026 Share the IR, not the pixels: a strategy for multi-ecosystem UI prototypes
For interaction-heavy prototypes, share meaning and behavior — domain IR plus a headless controller — and hand-write thin views per ecosystem. Do not aim to auto-convert full UI.
August 2, 2026 Fundamental contexts for portable UI
Maybe portability is not one mega-spec but a small set of fundamental contexts — structure, placement, events, 2D/3D surfaces, zoom — composed on purpose.

Interactive experiments, grouped by pattern — processing maps, product representation, attention, theme, and more.

Pipeline composer Sequence-first processing map — typed insert, nested parallelism, path replay

Org updates as HCI Nerdz takes shape — not essays.

August 1, 2026 Hello, HCI Nerdz
The org is live — honest surfaces, lower cognitive tax, and a clean split from shell/CLI work.

Related work from sibling organizations.