{"id":576,"date":"2003-01-19T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-19T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/?p=349"},"modified":"2010-03-30T14:37:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T21:37:05","slug":"349-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/archives\/576","title":{"rendered":"Skins, Themes, and Functionality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Refering to sources such as  <a href=\"http:\/\/ergo.human.cornell.edu\/ahtutorials\/interface.html\">Cornell  University&#8217;s Ergonomic  Guidelines for User Interface Design<\/a>, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfactor.com\/perl\/story\/16200.html\">OS Themes Are Only Skin Deep<\/a>, Kelly McNeill of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.platypuscreations.com\">Platypus Creations<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osOpinion.com\/\">osOpinion.com<\/a> (&#8220;Tech Opinion | Commentary For the People, By the People&#8221;) wades into that whole <i>skins thang<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Unfortunately, the latest trend in &#8220;user-friendliness&#8221; is allowing users to modify the interface of an  operating system extensively by applying &#8220;skins&#8221; or &#8220;themes.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>McNeill  wraps with a great line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Superior interface is defined not as that which gets one&#8217;s attention, but  instead as that which keeps attention focused on the computing task at  hand.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe browsing for fun is about entertainment, pleasant distraction &#8230; and maybe that&#8217;s got precious little to do with facilitating focussed productivity &#8230;  maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refering to sources such as Cornell University&#8217;s Ergonomic Guidelines for User Interface Design, in OS Themes Are Only Skin Deep,<a href=\"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/archives\/576\" class=\"searchmore\">Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clr\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}