{"id":29,"date":"2008-02-17T22:08:50","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T04:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hg.unl.edu\/~koleson\/wordpress\/?p=29"},"modified":"2008-02-17T22:08:50","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T04:08:50","slug":"computer-administrative-debris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jusquici.org\/blog\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"computer administrative debris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t read it already, Cathy Shive has done\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/katidev.com\/blog\/wp-trackback.php?p=20\">a nice piece<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0summarizing the words of\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/bboard\/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00036T\">Edward Tufte on the iPhone<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and applying it to a desktop context. \u00c2\u00a0In particular, both focus on bringing content to the front of the user perspective. \u00c2\u00a0The Shive writing in particular does a great job of showing concrete examples of what applications that have and avoid administrative debris look like. \u00c2\u00a0Most eye-catching for me was the comparison between Acorn and Photoshop.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It feels like &#8220;Keep It Simple, Stupid&#8221; all over again, but the examples chosen are of particular relevance, and the alternative interfaces Tufte presents in the iPhone video are interesting, even if they are not to my particular liking. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;d be curious to see what his examples would look like in a slightly &#8220;shinier&#8221; presentation, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t read it already, Cathy Shive has done\u00c2\u00a0a nice piece\u00c2\u00a0summarizing the words of\u00c2\u00a0Edward Tufte on the iPhone\u00c2\u00a0and applying it to a desktop context. \u00c2\u00a0In particular, both focus on bringing content to the front of the user perspective. \u00c2\u00a0The Shive writing in particular does a great job of showing concrete examples of what applications &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jusquici.org\/blog\/?p=29\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">computer administrative debris<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_markdown_editor_remember":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jusquici.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jusquici.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jusquici.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jusquici.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jusquici.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jusquici.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jusquici.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jusquici.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jusquici.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}