{"id":177,"date":"2002-08-12T16:31:20","date_gmt":"2002-08-12T16:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-177.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"usability-in-print-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/08\/12\/usability-in-print-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Usability in print media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/centerpiece\/081202_matters.htm\" title=\"Why Usability Matters by Monica Moses (Poynter.org)\">Why Usability Matters<\/a>, Monica Moses looks at how usability (and info architecture) principles can be applied to print journalism.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Text is the hardest format we give readers. It is potentially the most precise &#8212; and perhaps even the most satisfying. But reading text is essentially unnatural. Nobody is born knowing how. Even when we get good at it, reading text requires letter-by-letter, word-by-word translation by the brain. It&#8217;s work.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s all pretty obvious stuff, like splitting up text into easily scannable lists, but I couldn&#8217;t help but wonder where this might lead if taken to extremes&#8230;.  The latest Stephen King 600-pager reduced to a 4-page summary of bullet points and plot graphs? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the article Why Usability Matters, Monica Moses looks at how usability (and info architecture) principles can be applied to print journalism. &#8220;Text is the hardest format we give readers. It is potentially the most precise &#8212; and perhaps even the most satisfying. But reading text is essentially unnatural. Nobody is born knowing how. Even &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/08\/12\/usability-in-print-media\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Usability in print media&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-user_experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}