{"id":18,"date":"2013-03-09T03:36:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T03:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnelkurian.com\/jest\/?p=18"},"modified":"2017-11-25T22:22:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T22:22:34","slug":"design-fanboism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agnelkurian.com\/jest\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Design Fanboism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j-XTpdDDXiU#t=45s\" title=\"Chromebook Pixel: For What's Next \" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;We wanted basically to make the hardware disappear.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j-XTpdDDXiU?feature=player_detailpage#t=45s\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Since when did minimalism become the central design goal of every design of everything under the sun?&nbsp;Immersiveness is fine but only up to a point. The UI is what gives the user control in the environment. He needs to see what tools are at his disposal. Should we blindly adopt a design principle whose most tangible benefit is to reduce manufacturing costs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We wanted basically to make the hardware disappear.&#8221; Since when did minimalism become the central design goal of every design of everything under the sun?&nbsp;Immersiveness is fine but only up to a point. The UI is what gives the user control in the environment. He needs to see what tools are at his disposal. Should &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agnelkurian.com\/jest\/?p=18\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Design Fanboism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[22,23,20,21],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agnelkurian.com\/jest\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agnelkurian.com\/jest\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agnelkurian.com\/jest\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agnelkurian.com\/jest\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agnelkurian.com\/jest\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/agnelkurian.com\/jest\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"http:\/\/agnelkurian.com\/jest\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agnelkurian.com\/jest\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agnelkurian.com\/jest\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agnelkurian.com\/jest\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}