Designing for the command line
summary
Design focuses on concrete choices: building the GitHub CLI (gh) commands like gh issue list, showing success messages instead of silence to break no news is good news, adding headers and confirmation steps for risky actions, mapping GitHub colors to terminal output, and using colons so screen readers speak pauses. It ships with a config file, docs and an open source repo, and even playful hacks such as repo garden and a gh credits command.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:21What is a command line interface?
- 8:21Our goals
- 11:25Generating possibilities
- 12:40What we made
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