There are many counterexamples in the book… the one I liked is the remote control that has a loop antenna on it. The user, a computer science prof, points the loop antenna to his stereo, but still the stereo didn’t seem to receive the signals from the remote very well. Later on, he […]
Archive for August, 2007
p.g 158: “Most designers… know the product too well to envision how people will use it, yet we (designers) are separated from the end users by multiple layers of corporate bureaucracy…. What this really points out is that the process by which we design is flawed”.
Interesting observation, and that’s part of what Agile tries […]
In “Design of Everyday Things”, the author introduced concepts such as “conceptual models”, “forcing function”, “gulf of execution and gulf of evaluation”, etc. The design that he mentioned more than once as an example of a good design? The Bang & Olufsen remote control panel. (pg.175, fig. 6.9: this book is wirtten 20 […]
They’re my favourite companies that I’d like to invest into: I think long term both companies has designed great electronics with great user interfaces. Prices of electronics always drop, and I think it’s probably now reached a point where prices has become a little less of a factor. The usability factor, and […]
