The less types and amount of visual feedback you give the better<\/p>\n
Ex: an analog clock needs hours and minutes, but does it need seconds?\u00a0 Microseconds?\u00a0 Centuries?\u00a0 Do digital clocks (ex: alarm clocks) display seconds?<\/p>\n
What do the clocks in my kitchen need to show me?\u00a0 Why are there so many clocks that aren’t in sync?\u00a0 I have:<\/p>\n
If the power goes out I have to reset each of them, there’s no external clock.\u00a0 This clock<\/a> costs $20 and sinks with the US atomic clock<\/a> radio broadcast.<\/p>\n Another watch<\/a> with no second hand and no minute marks.\u00a0 Originally designed for the blind, but now a popular visual style.<\/p>\n Did Susan Kare<\/a> invent emoji?\u00a0 Her first icon designs for the Mac were done on a square grid as she knew needlepoint.\u00a0 She went on to do graphic design for General Magic<\/a>.<\/p>\n I look at these fundamental types of visual state:<\/p>\n The type of display is also important: led, a light, a screen, a moving object in 3 dimensions, a swinging\/flashing metronome.<\/p>\n First, please read chapters 3, 4, and 5 of Make It So<\/em>.<\/p>\n Second, look around your world and find some good and bad examples of visual display of information.\u00a0 Your home, your car, public transit, etc.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Example:\u00a0 I think my Eone Bradley watch changed how I think about time.\u00a0 I can only tell time to “about minutes”, it’s “about 4:55” or “about 4:15”.\u00a0 This has changed how I think about time being analog, not digital like on my phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Start Visual Visual feedback The less types and amount of visual feedback you give the better Ex: an analog clock needs hours and minutes, but does it need seconds?\u00a0 Microseconds?\u00a0 Centuries?\u00a0 Do digital clocks (ex: alarm clocks) display seconds? What do the clocks in my kitchen need to show me?\u00a0 Why are there so many … Continue reading “Class Notes, 31 Mar 2022”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/48-339\/s2022\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/48-339\/s2022\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/48-339\/s2022\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/48-339\/s2022\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/48-339\/s2022\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/48-339\/s2022\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/48-339\/s2022\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/48-339\/s2022\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/48-339\/s2022\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/48-339\/s2022\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Visual states<\/h3>\n
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Complex visual states<\/h3>\n
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Weekend assignment in two parts<\/h3>\n