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Re: Folk Interfaces

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Post by SamBam » Sat, Sep 03, 2022, 12:38 PM UTC

password4321 wrote: post #96

SamBam wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently it would only receive one frequency (presumably tuned when made). The target was for developing countries that might have only a single state-run station.

"The radio is, of course, non-directional. This means that it receives all stations simultaneously. But in emerging countries, this is of no importance: only one broadcast (carried by relay towers 50 miles apart) is carried." Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change ©1971 pg. 162 https://archive.org/details/designforrealwor0000papa/page/16...

Ah, misunderstood that. Ok, so fairly useless in a place with many stations.

Re: Folk Interfaces

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Post by pjc50 » Sat, Sep 03, 2022, 4:22 PM UTC

amadeuspagel wrote: post #75

pjc50 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter's "retweet" and "hashtag" were both folk innovations that became product features. People used to write 'RT @user "comment"' to retweet.

The quote RT is another example. People used to take screenshots of tweets to quote RT.

They still do sometimes .. and it may become more common as the edit button is rolled out.

Re: Folk Interfaces

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Post by zem » Sat, Sep 03, 2022, 10:20 PM UTC

along the lines of the d&d spreadsheet, I've developed an entire app for running scrabble tournaments as an elaborate google sheets script. it's a couple of thousand lines of javascript for the logic, but the user interface is entirely a bunch of spreadsheet tabs.

I'm currently rewriting it as a standalone web app just to break the dependence on google, and have a more customisable user experience, but it's really hard to beat the spreadsheet UX, where settings are all done using editable tables and the output shows up in another table.