{"id":581,"date":"2005-12-21T09:08:39","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T14:08:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:47","slug":"microsoft_hires_user_interface_guru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2005\/12\/21\/microsoft_hires_user_interface_guru\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft hires user interface guru"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/c\/?109\">CNet News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Microsoft Research has hired Bill Buxton, a designer known for his work in human-machine interfaces.<\/p>\n<p>Buxton will work as a senior researcher for the software giant and focus on product design, particularly for so-called ubiquitous computing applications.<\/p>\n<p>The growing number of handheld devices and embedded processors in cars and other items poses new design challenges, Buxton said Monday. For example, in the near future, a person&#8217;s watch, cell phone, car and shop window could all exchange information.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the best of worlds, this society of devices starts to complement one other and in their collective selves, let&#8217;s say, reduce the overall complexity that confronts you and me,&#8221; Buxton said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNet News: Microsoft Research has hired Bill Buxton, a designer known for his work in human-machine interfaces. Buxton will work as a senior researcher for the software giant and focus on product design, particularly for so-called ubiquitous computing applications. The growing number of handheld devices and embedded processors in cars and other items poses &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}