Windows and Mirrors

To be aware of it, and not necessarily rushing to read it, Windows and Mirrors Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency by Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala, seems to provide a design and art oriented approach to invisibility in the digital world. A good example of the relevance of digital art to technologists for experimental design.

Bolter and Gromala argue that invisibility or transparency is only half the story; the goal of digital design is to establish a rhythm between transparency–made possible by mastery of techniques–and reflection–as the medium itself helps us understand our experience of it.