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Application Design for Tight Operator Control

In these days of exceptionally “busy” screens within which operators can usually choose many options (…and sometimes ones which they shouldn’t), I have been placed in a position where I am being asked to create an application with minimal functionality entry screens!  This design approach reminds me of the very simplistic (…also efficient, lean and mean) entry screens of the character-based applications I was designing in the 70’s and 80’s.  No surprise here since the application being designed is truly a system based upon that early design approach and technology — and my customer describes himself as a “control freak”, and describes a co-worker as “even more of a control freak” than he is!

OK, so you’ve now got a general picture of a design criteria — Keep It Simple Stupid!  Continued »