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Re:Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users by robocat on Thursday October 14, 2021 @08:30PM (#28872258)
> If we had tentacles, door handles probably would look more different.

I would love to see a virtual reality app that plays with different organism layouts, and solving the usability issues.

There is a lot of great sci-fi that tries to consider how a world would be designed for non-humanoids, or mixed aliens, or the reverse archaeological problem of calculating how aliens look from what they have left behind. I am struggling to think of any sci-fi that makes you deeply think about usability.

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Re:Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users by nanomonkey on Friday October 15, 2021 @12:49AM (#28874410)
"The Galaxy, and the Ground Within" by Becky Chambers (Book 4 in the Wayfarers Series) not only deals with a mixed alien usability environment, it also passes an alien Bechdel test of sorts.

The whole Wayfarers series is amazing in my opinion.

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Re:Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users by BEEdwards on Friday October 15, 2021 @05:08PM (#28883161)
"A Closed and Common Orbit", the second in the series) is my favorite book ever.
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