{"id":4424,"date":"2010-07-06T12:59:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T16:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=4424"},"modified":"2010-07-06T13:42:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T17:42:37","slug":"the-anti-ergonomic-design-of-scanners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/07\/06\/the-anti-ergonomic-design-of-scanners\/","title":{"rendered":"The anti-ergonomic design of scanners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having recently inherited Elizabeth’s printer\/scanner because it stopped being willing to play nice with her computer, I found that if anything, James Lileks<\/a> is being over-charitable to scanner ergonomic design teams:<\/p>\n

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I just fear dealing with the Canon scanner interface, although it can\u2019t be worse than HP. Yes, yes, I know, buy VueScan. But I had just gotten used to the HP interface on the new scanner. It was designed, as usual, by engineers with no taste who presume Great-gramma is trying to scan something so she can send it by the inter-mails to someone, and needs to be shown in the most obvious way possible that she is old and stupid and should not use computers. Hence it has two icons: one says DOCUMENTS, with a little badge that says \u201c300,\u201d and another says IMAGES, with a badge reading \u201c200.\u201d I assume that means dpi, but who knows? You can make custom profiles, but it never remembers them. There\u2019s no button that actually says SCAN, which would be helpful. It\u2019s as if the GUI team is a bunch of malicious bastiches who came up with the most non-intuitive interface ever, then said \u201cOkay, now let\u2019s add one more step between deciding to scan and actually achieving a scan. Johnson, you\u2019re good at this. What would you recommend?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, just off the top of my head, I\u2019d say have the default setting for saving put it into some proprietary image-collection program buried deep in the User\u2019s library, so it can\u2019t be found no matter how hard they look.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cExcellent! Make it so.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having recently inherited Elizabeth’s printer\/scanner because it stopped being willing to play nice with her computer, I found that if anything, James Lileks is being over-charitable to scanner ergonomic design teams: I just fear dealing with the Canon scanner interface, although it can\u2019t be worse than HP. Yes, yes, I know, buy VueScan. But I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,15],"tags":[109,140,581,156],"class_list":["post-4424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-technology","tag-computers","tag-design","tag-ergonomics","tag-fail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-19m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4430,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions\/4430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}