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by neilv
442 days ago
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That's a lot of distracting elements in the design, in something intended to reduce distractions. They're all saying "This has a lot of things, and we're going to noisily tell you about them." https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=fisher+price+busy+box&ia=imag... What about instead an unobtrusive software-based timer on your computer? And the notification to coworkers not to interrupt you being a low-tech "BUSY" Post-It on the back of your laptop. Or your headphones on? Though their advertising does have some interesting features and use cases. For example, you'd need to figure out a convention equivalent to smacking the Busy Bar button, to make your colleagues slink away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_to_the_hand |
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