In a lot of ways I think our current metaphors encourage churning through information with no attention to detailed intent. If you look at what most informatio

In a lot of ways I think our current metaphors encourage churning through information with no attention to detailed intent. If you look at what most information workflows in most circumstances do, they involve moving around, organizing and filtering a set of data. This is stuff that can metaphorically be done with pages, books, shelves, bins and labels. But the actual UI we present avoids such tight spatial skeumorphisms, or corrupts them for implementation convenience. Everything magically resizes and reformats itself, locks into place preventing free movement, disappears from one place and reappears in another, and has multiple labels and identifiers that have magical meaning. It's like waking up in a rearranged house every day and being greeted with a prerecorded message: "We made it better for you, now don't screw it up!"