{"id":159,"date":"2007-08-10T10:06:47","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T15:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/2007\/08\/09\/minority-report-user-interface\/"},"modified":"2007-08-12T10:07:33","modified_gmt":"2007-08-12T15:07:33","slug":"minority-report-user-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/2007\/08\/minority-report-user-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority Report User Interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a little exercise I give in class to anyone who suggests the <em>Minority Report <\/em>UI is a good idea:  <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Stand up.<br \/>\n\u2022 Extend your arms in front of you.<br \/>\n\u2022 Hold them there for as long as you typically spend with keyboard and mouse, occasionally moving them around a little and with a lot of wrist twisting.  For me, that\u2019s often two four- to six-hour stretches in a day.<\/p>\n<p>Now choose:<br \/>\n[1] I would like to replace my current desktop UI with this, or<br \/>\n[2] I would like to schedule an appointment with someone who does rotator cuff surgery.<\/p>\n<p>People are just not designed to stand there with arms fully or mostly extended for hours at a time.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that people find this so appealing is really a symptom of a larger issue: the fundamental thing many people don\u2019t understand is that \u201clooks cool\u201d does not translate into \u201cactually a good idea for a UI.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a little exercise I give in class to anyone who suggests the Minority Report UI is a good idea: \u2022 Stand up. \u2022 Extend your arms in front of you. \u2022 Hold them there for as long as you typically spend with keyboard and mouse, occasionally moving them around a little and with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/2007\/08\/minority-report-user-interface\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Minority Report User Interface<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}