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Re:Minimalist Affordances: Making the Right Tradeoffs by alanbernstein on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @04:13PM (#38197135)
Would you mind explaining, then, how the half rest, quarter rest, and eighth rest symbols indicate the temporal relationship they have with each other?
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Re:Minimalist Affordances: Making the Right Tradeoffs by flappyeagle on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @06:32PM (#38198793)
It’s pretty telling which symbols you chose. The relationship between half notes, quarter notes and eighth notes is obvious.

The rests are shaped similarly to their note counterparts. Eggs are bars; stems are sticks; flags are the same just facing different directions.

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Re:Minimalist Affordances: Making the Right Tradeoffs by alanbernstein on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @07:04PM (#38199082)
I confess I did choose the non-obvious symbols to illustrate the article's point that those symbols are non-obvious.

We agree that some of the symbols have clear visual relationships. The article suggests it would be nice if all of them had such relationships. Instead, we have what looks like a random agglomeration of symbols, of which a few happen to make sense.

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