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This is really amazing and inspiring to see. Every now and then, I get scared when thinking about what would happen if my eyes or my hands started to lose functionality. I sometimes feel pain in my pinky fingers when typing, forcing me to adapt to using only my other fingers.
If she is still doing thous 11-15 hour work days and her neck doesn't get tiered, I really think she might have had too hard of a grip on her mouse or just a bad mouse in general.
Most people tend to get RSI when they first he very active in computer work,and after a year or so they find a healthy posture and their hands strengthen and it isn't an issue. This article seems like a gimmick by someone who wants to be special instead of using perfectly effective solutions. Or it is a joke.
There are very many causes for wrist pain, ranging from carpal tunnel syndrome to osteoarthritis. A bad posture might contribute to wrist pain, but even the best posture won't cure someone suffering from gout.
The author hasn't shared the reason for her wrist pain, most likely because she doesn't know the reason herself. She knows that her wrists hurt when she uses them too much.
Please don't belittle other people's ways of coping with imperfections.
I wonder if her neck started getting tired from all that movement. It seems that it's mostly people who grip their mouse really tightly/type with tense fingers that experience the most problems - I remember when I first started typing, my fingers tired too easily because the keys were heavy, and I was exerting a lot of force trying to get the fingers to exactly where I wanted them to go. Later, when I got a "looser"…
People's mouse grip varies immensely. But the one thing that should be easily controlled, in any reasonable case, is the surface. A mouse mat will often reduce friction greatly, and you can augment your mouse with custom teflon "feet". Gamer peripherals, basically. I see a lot of people who just run their mice across their desk, which no doubt works, but is sub-optimal in that it's not a particularly durable surface…
Just reading the responses here - am I the only person who has zero problem using a trackpad and keyboard with my hands for >=8 hours a day? Maybe it's that I'm not a designer and so the precision of my motions isn't such that I'd experience problems like this. I think the only problem I've ever had was back when I tried using a Microsoft Natural keyboard, and my hands were sore after an hour. Also, good for her, fin…
I know that this is off topic, but what a beautifully designed website!
Beautiful maybe, but in my opinion, multiple columns for continuous text makes for a bad UX. I've seen this starting to popup in a few websites recently and it always annoys me.
This is really amazing and inspiring to see. Every now and then, I get scared when thinking about what would happen if my eyes or my hands started to lose functionality. I sometimes feel pain in my pinky fingers when typing, forcing me to adapt to using only my other fingers.
If it's your right pinky, remap your backspace key immediately. Caps lock is my choice, and I make backspace into a proper (forward) delete key. This has eliminated all typing pain for me.
The elasticity of the brain is incredibly impressive. Very neat solution. My parents are surgeons, and I know they worry at least a little bit about the safety of their hands. While my hands are definitely very important to my being able to work I know I don't worry as much as they do. That's funny, because for the most part I think about Carpal Tunnel Syndrome as a career-ending condition. I recently suffered some a…
That said, keyboard and monitor height properly adjusted probably help for many too... I don't bottom out with a mechanical keyboard.