This draft was released March 15, 2006. Please email comments to bretworrydream.com. You can also download the PDF. Magic Ink Information Software and the Graphical Interface by Bret Victor Abstract The ubiquity of frustrating, unhelpful software interfaces has motivated decades of research into “Human-Computer Interaction.” In this paper, I suggest that the long-standing focus on “interaction” may be misguided. For a majority subset of software, called “information software,” I argue that i...