{"id":69,"date":"2002-11-11T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-11T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2002-11-11T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-11T14:37:00","slug":"user-interface-decay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"User Interface Decay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mpt.phrasewise.com\/stories\/storyReader$374\">When good interfaces go crufty<\/a> has lots of well thought through examples of user interface traits that are artifacts of obsolete design constraints.<br \/>\nOne such example: applications use awkward little filepickers to open or save files because when the Mac was first designed, it wasn&#8217;t able to run the file manager and an application program at the same time.<br \/>\nInstalled base dependencies and cultural habits can cause cruft to be highly persistent. Think about it &#8212; the school year in the US begins in September and ends in May, to allow students time off to help with the family harvest.<br \/>\nOne nit &#8212; Internet Explorer&#8217;s lack of an exit menu item is a bug, not a feature. If you&#8217;ve got more than one window open, you need to close them, tediously, one at a time.<br \/>\nThe essay was slashdotted, so you may have read it already \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When good interfaces go crufty has lots of well thought through examples of user interface traits that are artifacts of obsolete design constraints. One such example: applications use awkward little filepickers to open or save files because when the Mac was first designed, it wasn&#8217;t able to run the file manager and an application program &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=69\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;User Interface Decay&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-17","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}