{"id":17,"date":"2006-05-05T11:08:22","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T19:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2006-05-05T11:08:37","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T19:08:37","slug":"japanese-style-user-interface-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Style User Interface Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the years, I’ve noticed that Japanese devices have a unique style of UI.<\/p>\n

What’s that, you ask?<\/p>\n

They present a Colossal Cave Adventure Game<\/a> to the user.<\/p>\n

They idea behind Japanese UI, it seems, is to give the user a rich world to explore. “Look what I found!”<\/p>\n

Lots of “You are in a twisty maze of passageways, all different” ness.<\/p>\n

Lots of options. Not just a lot of options in simple lists, as one would expect an out-of-control engineer to create, but rather modes, tricks and cross-connect dependencies galore, each affecting available options.<\/p>\n

Presumably, the device has fulfilled its function when the user fully explores the device’s UI. That done, the user tosses the device and gets something new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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