Ken,
Thanks for saying what I was thinking (but in a much more complete manner.) One design-related note:
> On Feb 28, 2018, at 12:10 PM, Ken Friedman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> As a student, I found it extremely useful to browse the stacks. The catalog told me where to find useful books on topics on interest. Then, I could browse spines and speed read interesting items. I learned a great deal this way.
This may be obvious to everyone but a problem with some interface design is making things too precise. If you know you want corn flakes and didn’t even know that you could eat rice puffs, you’ll continue eating the same thing for breakfast every morning. If you shop in a store, you’ll see other cereal choices but if there’s an efficient database to order from, you’ll see only what you know.
The peripheral vision thing from open-stack libraries and bookstores is very valuable. Building peripheral vision into an interface while keeping it quick and efficient is sometimes hard but it helps make people smarter.
Gunnar
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