{"id":2522,"date":"2009-01-07T19:53:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T02:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2009-01-15T15:53:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T22:53:49","slug":"a-good-user-interface-is-so-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/07\/a-good-user-interface-is-so-important\/","title":{"rendered":"A good user interface is so important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/bad-oven-thermometer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2524\" title=\"bad-oven-thermometer\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/bad-oven-thermometer-150x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/bad-oven-thermometer-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/bad-oven-thermometer-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/bad-oven-thermometer.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about user interfaces recently. There are so many horribly designed things that are pushed on us&#8230; from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surlatable.com\/product\/features\/top+ten+thanksgiving+prep+items\/maverick+oven+and+roasting+digital+thermometer+with+timer.do?search=basic&amp;keyword=two-in-one+thermometer&amp;sortby=ourPicks&amp;page=1\">awful oven thermometer<\/a> I just paid $25 for at Sur-La-Table&#8230; If you want to set the food temperature alarm, simply push the &#8220;food&#8221; button until the display increments up to the temp you want. To set a lower alarm temperature, <strong>keep pushing the button until it goes all the way up to 572 degrees and wraps around<\/strong> back down to 80 degrees. I&#8217;ll be returning it shortly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marahrosenberg.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/09\/bagel-shop-re-engineering\/\">Marah pointed out her horrid process management experience<\/a> \u00a0as a customer at a local deli. They tried to streamline or something in an effort to improve their throughput. Trouble is, they got <strong>everything wrong<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about user interfaces recently. There are so many horribly designed things that are pushed on us&#8230; from the awful oven thermometer I just paid $25 for at Sur-La-Table&#8230; If you want to set the food temperature alarm, simply push the &#8220;food&#8221; button until the display increments up to the temp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2560,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions\/2560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}