{"id":2603,"date":"2018-02-08T01:14:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T06:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2018-01-27T09:21:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T14:21:39","slug":"the-circle-and-the-blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2018\/02\/the-circle-and-the-blank\/","title":{"rendered":"The Circle and the Blank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>The user interface and the user experience seem to be based on two, quite simple things.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I love to look at the photos on the <a href=\"http:\/\/analog-dreams.tumblr.com\">Analog Dreams<\/a> posts in tumblr. Those big, beautiful round knobs. I owned a lot of the things shown in the photos, and there was something magical about slowly turning those round knobs.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the world evolves around (another circle) that one simple little blank field that we see on Google and everywhere else. Type something in the blank and the world opens.<\/p>\n<p>That summarizes the world of the user interface: the round knob and the blank field. I guess for a few more years we will all have the steering wheel, that big round knob that gives us the power of choice as to where we take our lives. I hate to see it go away. Perhaps I won&#8217;t live that long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips The user interface and the user experience seem to be based on two, quite simple things. I love to look at the photos on the Analog Dreams posts in tumblr. Those big, beautiful round knobs. I owned a lot of the things shown in the photos, and there was something magical about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,48,61],"tags":[135,170,181],"class_list":["post-2603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-general-systems-thinking","category-magic","tag-design","tag-general-systems-thinking","tag-magic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2604,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions\/2604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}