18 Dec
2015
18 Dec
'15
9:40 a.m.
From: Chuck Guzis
It's also occurred to me that without screens, we
might be better off
today ... The average web-surfing experience blasts the user with tons
of filigree and useless data, but very little useful information. ...
Web sites that have multi-megabyte splash screens that serve no purpose
other than tell you that you've arrived.
Agree completely. The amount of useless 'eye candy' on the average Web page
is, well, appalling. But then again, the low S/N on developing technologies,
as worthless content expands faster than high quality - well, that's nothing
new, look at TV.
(oh boy, am I going to get flack on this one)
Not so much! Most seem to agree, actually! :-)
Data is cheap and Parkinson's law applies.
"90% of _everything_ is crap!"
Noel
18 Dec
18 Dec
1:04 p.m.
On 12/18/2015 06:40 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
Agree completely. The amount of useless 'eye
candy' on the average
Web page is, well, appalling. But then again, the low S/N on
developing technologies, as worthless content expands faster than
high quality - well, that's nothing new, look at TV.
Heh. Remember when "public TV" used to be called "educational TV"?
Do
you remember "Sunrise Semester"? Julius Sumner Miller?
--Chuck
1:20 p.m.
On 2015-12-18 2:04 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 12/18/2015 06:40 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
...Or the learning channel had something to do with learning and the
history channel had something to do with history. I stopped watching
TV a few years ago, playing with old computers is much more fun...
Paul.
Agree completely. The amount of useless 'eye
candy' on the average
Web page is, well, appalling. But then again, the low S/N on
developing technologies, as worthless content expands faster than
high quality - well, that's nothing new, look at TV.
Heh. Remember when "public TV" used to be called "educational TV"?
Do you remember "Sunrise Semester"? Julius Sumner Miller?
--Chuck
4 p.m.
I deal with modern computing devices with no visual display - or at least,
the visual display is not used. My current Day Job is in accessibility,
and I make extensive use of screen readers (your Android phone comes with
TalkBack, and if you're an iSerf you have VoiceOver). It changes the
design space a lot - not only because 'display' is spoken word rather than
graphics, but because the screen reader inherently serializes the
experience of the UI.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Paul Berger <phb.hfx at gmail.com> wrote:
On 2015-12-18 2:04 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical
Narrative Through a Design Lens
Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org>
Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org>
University of Washington
There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
On 12/18/2015 06:40 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
Agree completely. The amount of useless 'eye candy' on the average
history
channel had something to do with history. I stopped watching TV a
few years ago, playing with old computers is much more fun...
Paul.
Web page is, well, appalling. But then again, the
low S/N on
developing technologies, as worthless content expands faster than
high quality - well, that's nothing new, look at TV.
Heh. Remember when "public TV" used to be called "educational TV"?
Do
you remember "Sunrise Semester"? Julius Sumner Miller?
--Chuck
...Or the learning channel had something to do with learning and the
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