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I go all the way back to the introduction of the original Microsoft ergonomic keyboard and variants of the time. Watching a few hundred graphic artists grapple
by robomartin 2y ago
I go all the way back to the introduction of the original Microsoft ergonomic keyboard and variants of the time. Watching a few hundred graphic artists grapple with this problem over a few years was a real education on the topic. They tried everything, from wrist braces to every type of keyboard and variant available. I remember one guy even resorted to taping the pen for his digitizing tablet to his hand in order to avoid having to grasp it for 12+ hours per day. Another guy taught himself to use two pens with the tablet to be able to alternate and relax one hand while continuing to work.
All of it, I concluded, at the end of the day, was just nuts. What they had to do was to both exercise and take meaningful breaks every couple of hours or thereabouts.
I need to go back and document my custom desk design. The approach I took worked very well.
- polishdude20 2y agoOr maybe deadlines should have become more lax for them? I'm assuming they worked like that without breaks because of the impossible deadlines given to them?