The Importance of Illusion in Interface Design

Josh: "It's all user interface is an illusion, just this little thin layer of magic that we stretch over this churn of ones and zeros" We were talking to Steven the night before. You were thinking, you were going to do magic tricking your show. Was it with a disappearing coin or something you were talking about doing? Yeah. And you originally had a video clip of myself making a coin disappear. But I'd been out of practice for a while. It turns out these things are just sticks. So you were both using this metaphor for the deception that we also do in interface design. When we've talked previously about deception and persuasion, the deception has always had the