{"id":694,"date":"2013-03-11T02:08:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T02:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomnoun.com\/wp\/?p=694"},"modified":"2023-12-18T06:21:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T06:21:26","slug":"usability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randomnoun.com\/wp\/2013\/03\/11\/usability\/","title":{"rendered":"Usability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So computer interfaces have been getting easier and easier to use, as we move from command-line interfaces to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WIMP_%28computing%29\">WIMP<\/a>, to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metro_%28design_language%29\">one-application-at-a-time-as-long-as-it&#8217;s-represented-as-a-big-coloured-square<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This is all part of a long-running movement to make your computer so easy to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/enable\/aging\/\">that even your grandmother (or CEO) could use it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I propose a different idea, which is instead to keep the computer as a basically functional piece of hardware, but to give instructions to the end user in the form of crochet patterns, such as the following:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_695\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-695\" style=\"width: 380px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.randomnoun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/backslash-stitch.png\" alt=\"This is a backslash\" width=\"380\" height=\"470\" class=\"size-full wp-image-695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.randomnoun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/backslash-stitch.png 380w, https:\/\/www.randomnoun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/backslash-stitch-243x300.png 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is a backslash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Which, due to the magnificent people at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microrevolt.org\/knitPro\/index.php\">MicroRevolt KnitPro<\/a>, I have converted into a cross-stitch pattern, which you may download here, and then use to adorn your wall or tea cosy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.randomnoun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/backslash-stitch.pdf\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"download-button nobr\">\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.randomnoun.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/download-arrow.png\" width=\"41\" height=\"40\" style=\"margin: 5px; float:left;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"big\">Download PDF<\/div>\n<div class=\"small\">backslash-stitch.pdf<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go in peace, and God bless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So computer interfaces have been getting easier and easier to use, as we move from command-line interfaces to WIMP, to one-application-at-a-time-as-long-as-it&#8217;s-represented-as-a-big-coloured-square. This is all part of a long-running movement to make your computer so easy to use that even your grandmother (or CEO) could use it. I propose a different idea, which is instead to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomnoun.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomnoun.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomnoun.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomnoun.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomnoun.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomnoun.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3916,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomnoun.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/3916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomnoun.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomnoun.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomnoun.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomnoun.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}