Creating User-Friendly Technology
by Ron McNeill
Everywhere we look today we are surrounded by technological advances that have been created to make our lives easier. The best of these devices are so good at what they do that you are not even aware of how sophisticated they are. It is easy to take for granted the amount of engineering that went into creating the cell phone you are using, the remote for your radio or TV, as well as your watch. We have come to rely heavily on many of these technologies to make our lives simpler and create opportunities for us to automate many of the tasks we do each day. Many of the modern marvels we use today have simplified our lives in ways that it would be hard to imagine living without them. Doing tasks like laundry used to be an all day ritual that required someone’s complete attention. Today it can be done at the same time as you are doing something else.
The key component of a device that is a true benefit is that it takes a mundane task and turns it into something that does not require a great deal of effort and focus. The best technologies are the ones that we use to do those jobs we hate so we can concentrate on the tasks we enjoy. This has been the intent behind the creation of computers and software that we use in our offices from the very beginning.
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