From CSS Zen Garden to headless internet: HCI is becoming HHI
signulll · x · 2026-10-13
- The author recalls obsessing over HCI in the 2000s: building clean websites, joining CSS Zen Garden communities, and perfecting typography, layouts, and interactions.
- He argues traditional UX paradigms like buttons and menus feel quaint in an LLM-centric world, and the internet will become almost entirely headless within a decade.
- Interaction design is shifting toward "promptology" and intent modeling—HCI is evolving into HHI (human-human interaction), more "human" but a little absurd.
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