Harold Thimbleby

List of John Benjamins publications for which Harold Thimbleby plays a role.

Article

Thimbleby, Harold 1983 Designing word processors: Principle and prejudice Information Design Journal 3:3, pp. 239–244 | Article

This article gives a brief tutorial description of word processors, but the major part of it discusses the system design issues, almost all of which arise because system designers are technical people and typists are skilled 'craftsmen'.