Although multitasking has been regarded as an evolutionary design in the history of personal computers and mobile phones, people tend to keep more and more apps and web pages running at the same time on the screen -- which is not actually a benefit. Human beings can generally only focus on a single thing at a time, and some people get distracted easily when there are just a few things catching eyes. As a result, people become less productive using computer devices, despite these devices get more and more powerful.

While we devise a new tool, we should remind ourselves not to get undermined or inherently manipulated by the tool we built. The purpose of the Hyperfocal initiative is to remind people to keep pushing the evolution productive workflow and user interface, to help users retain focused, instead of getting lost while using the even powerful computer devices.

The term hyperfocal comes from "hyperfocal distance" in the realm of photography and camera design.  It is a well calculated distance based on the full understanding among camera lens, aperture, sensor and your object to shoot. Using this distance for the design of camera or photography setup, you can maximize the regions of the scene getting focused on the image. This is similar to what this site tries to achieve, to advocate for knowing the needs of people better, and to design a better tool that helps us get more focused and productive.

雖然 multitasking (多工)功能被當作個人電腦與手機開發史上的里程碑，螢幕上能同時開啟的app也越來越多--這並不真的是好的。人類同時仍然只能專注在一件事，大多數人專注力也不夠，導致使用3C時容易分心、效率不高。

我們應該在利用強大電腦功能的同時，不會被此功能給操控。因此 Hyperfocal 要嘗試繼續推進有效率的工作流程與人機介面的進化、回歸以人為出發點的操作設計。

Hyperfocal 一詞來自攝影及相機設計領域的hyperfocal distance。它是在完全了解鏡頭、光圈、感光元件與拍攝物後，計算出的完美距離。以此距離的安排可最大化成像的對焦能力——正如本站的目標，要全盤理解使用者與工具的關係，讓我們的工作更專注有效率。