{"id":3289,"date":"2011-04-14T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3289"},"modified":"2011-04-14T12:21:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T17:21:04","slug":"dont-mimic-real-world-interfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/14\/dont-mimic-real-world-interfaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&rsquo;t Mimic Real-World Interfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksreview.net\/2011\/04\/mimics\/\">Ben Brooks<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2011\/04\/14\/dont-mimic-real-world-interfaces\">Marco Arment<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/brooksreview.net\/2011\/04\/mimics\/\"><p>How many teenagers today are likely to have ever owned or used a DayRunner? Mimicking these interfaces is not about creating a more usable interface, or about giving the consumer what they know &mdash; it is about creating eye candy, while the usability and productivity of the app suffers. Eye candy can aid a design and the usability &mdash; as it did with the first computer applications &mdash; more often though is forces the app to look and behave in a manner that is not very helpful to the user.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Brooks (via Marco Arment): How many teenagers today are likely to have ever owned or used a DayRunner? Mimicking these interfaces is not about creating a more usable interface, or about giving the consumer what they know &mdash; it is about creating eye candy, while the usability and productivity of the app suffers. Eye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3290,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions\/3290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}