{"id":179936,"date":"2017-09-07T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/07\/i-need-to-make-my-web-site-tougher-more-confusing-and-more-complex\/"},"modified":"2017-09-07T19:52:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T00:52:00","slug":"i-need-to-make-my-web-site-tougher-more-confusing-and-more-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/07\/i-need-to-make-my-web-site-tougher-more-confusing-and-more-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"I Need to Make My Web Site Tougher More Confusing and More Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study has been made about so-called &#8220;Flat&#8221; user interfaces, and it turns out that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2017\/09\/05\/flat_uis_designs_are_22_per_cent_slower_official\/\">they are 22% slower for users to navigate a site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You are no doubt aware of it the trend.  It&#8217;s the latest user interface fashion, favored by Apple and Google, among others.<\/p>\n<p>It does boggle the mind that an interface created by Microsoft for its Zune<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> music player has taken user interface design by storm.<\/p>\n<p>First, even by the standards of Microsoft, the Zune<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> was a miserable failure, and second, who in their right mind would steal user interface ideas from Microsoft?<\/p>\n<p>The only explanation I have for this is a conspiracy theory:&nbsp; I know from my Google<sup>\u2122<\/sup> analytics account that the amount of time the average user spends on the site is closely tracked.  (They call it &#8220;Engagement&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>This means that for advertising supported media, a second wasted is a second monetized.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not actually going to make my site less intuitive, I rely on my ordinary thought processses to confuse my reader(s).  It&#8217;s a matter of pride.<\/p>\n<p>Neither would I suggest that you leave a tab open to my site in the background, as my making sush a suggestion would be a violation of the terms of service of Google<sup>\u2122<\/sup> Adsense<sup>\u2122<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study has been made about so-called &#8220;Flat&#8221; user interfaces, and it turns out that they are 22% slower for users to navigate a site. You are no doubt aware of it the trend. It&#8217;s the latest user interface fashion, favored by Apple and Google, among others. It does boggle the mind that an interface &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[588,367,430,382],"class_list":["post-179936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fail","tag-internet","tag-meta","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}