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[[Category:In-jokes]]
 
[[Category:In-jokes]]
 
[[Category:Computing]]
 
[[Category:Computing]]
[[Category:SRAs]]
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[[Category:Awards]]
'''Less black and more graphics''' is a [[Computing]] Team [[in-joke]], originating from the [[SRAs]] 2012.
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'''Less black and more graphics''' is a [[Computing]] Team [[:Category:In-jokes|in-joke]], originating from the 2012 [[SRAs]].
    
== Origin ==
 
== Origin ==
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THE STUDENT RADIO ASSOCIATION - AWARDS FEEDBACK (URY (BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT) - PRESENTERS FIRST: A UNIFIED COMPUTING EXPERIENCE)<br />
 
THE STUDENT RADIO ASSOCIATION - AWARDS FEEDBACK (URY (BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT) - PRESENTERS FIRST: A UNIFIED COMPUTING EXPERIENCE)<br />
 
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Hi Matt Windsor,<br />
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Hi [[Matt Windsor]],<br />
 
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Firstly, we're sorry that this feedback process has taken slightly longer than we would originally had hoped.<br />
 
Firstly, we're sorry that this feedback process has taken slightly longer than we would originally had hoped.<br />
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Below you will find the feedback for 'PRESENTERS FIRST: A UNIFIED COMPUTING EXPERIENCE' that you entered into the 'BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT' category for the Student Radio Awards 2012. Depending on the  category, you may have more than one piece of feedback from different judges. To protect the judges anonymity, their names are not included. If you entered this category on behalf of someone else, please forward this on to the participants!<br />
 
Below you will find the feedback for 'PRESENTERS FIRST: A UNIFIED COMPUTING EXPERIENCE' that you entered into the 'BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT' category for the Student Radio Awards 2012. Depending on the  category, you may have more than one piece of feedback from different judges. To protect the judges anonymity, their names are not included. If you entered this category on behalf of someone else, please forward this on to the participants!<br />
 
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* A well thought through playout system and broadcast work flow manager
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* A well thought through [[Show Planner|playout system and broadcast work flow manager]]
 
* Excellent system, nice use of HTML5.
 
* Excellent system, nice use of HTML5.
 
* A lot of time and effort and clearly gone in to creating this system and it does quite a few clever things. However, it slightly feels as though the system is trying to be all things to all people. Future development should perhaps focus on making the user interface more friendly ('''less black, more graphics''', standard symbolic buttons etc).
 
* A lot of time and effort and clearly gone in to creating this system and it does quite a few clever things. However, it slightly feels as though the system is trying to be all things to all people. Future development should perhaps focus on making the user interface more friendly ('''less black, more graphics''', standard symbolic buttons etc).
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Much was made of the SRA judges' decree that URY's computing services would be improved by less black and more graphics.  It was pointed out that less black would reduce contrast (thus making it harder to read things) and more graphics would clutter the user interfaces up (thus making it harder to read things).
 
Much was made of the SRA judges' decree that URY's computing services would be improved by less black and more graphics.  It was pointed out that less black would reduce contrast (thus making it harder to read things) and more graphics would clutter the user interfaces up (thus making it harder to read things).
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The other potential issue with this observation was that URY's branding at the time was, in fact, predominantly black. This email therefore specified that we would've won the award if we changed our corporate branding - something which is of course directly under the remit of "Best Technical Achievement".
    
A retort was sent, but not replied to.  Possibly.
 
A retort was sent, but not replied to.  Possibly.
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== Alternative forms ==
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The phrase is sometimes inverted as ''more black and less graphics'', usually to connote the idea of rebelling against the SRA ([[in all their]] ignorance).

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