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by wpietri 2277 days ago
I'm with you. I absolutely hate rotating displays. If I look at it with intent, it's only going to be what I want 1/N of the time, meaning I'm wasting time N-1/N of the time.

And if it's just a general information radiator, as with a big wall display, I still want it to be stable, because a) it's better for developing a correlative understanding between different variables, and b) I want to train people to look at it with intent.

The only time it ever made sense to me was a) when displays were expensive, and b) people were going to anyhow be standing around with nothing to do. E.g., the decades-old BART LED-matrix signs rotate. I still hate it, but I get it. Now, though, displays are cheap, and at work, hopefully people have things to do!