Editing LCARS (section)

==Production==
The LCARS [[graphical user interface]] was designed by scenic art supervisor and technical consultant [[Michael Okuda]]. The original design concept was influenced by a request from [[Gene Roddenberry]] that the instrument panels not have a great deal of activity on them.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite magazine |title=Michael Okuda interview |magazine=[[Star Trek: The Magazine]] |volume=1 |issue=7 |page=22 |date=November 1999}}</ref> This minimalized look was designed to give a sense that the technology was much more advanced than in the original ''Star Trek''.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

On ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', many of the buttons were labeled with the initials of members of the production crew and were referred to as "Okudagrams."<ref name=techmanual />