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The Filing Cabinet
- Granular Certainty, the Vertical Filing Cabinet, and the Transformation of Files
Craig Robertson
Anthropomorphizing paper acknowledges the anxiety associated with misplacing loose paper. Circulating through the office, papers were expected to manifest the valuable attributes of information as a discrete unit but not to become disconnected from the ov... See moreSara added
Consider how much space would be freed up by eliminating all file cabinets in an office department.
from PAPERLESS JOY by George Dimopoulos
In the case of the filing cabinet, there were visible elements that helped bridge the Gulf of Execution when everything was working perfectly. The drawer handle clearly signified that it should be pulled and the slider on the handle indicated how to release the catch that normally held the drawer in place. But when these operations failed, there th
... See morefrom The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
Unlike the brain, the file cabinet approach makes it difficult or impossible to remix or reuse the same piece of information. Each time a change is made to any given file, it has to be tracked down and updated in every location in which it exists. This leads to redundancy, with a cluttering of near-identical ideas, and significant work any time a s
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