Master of Arts in clichés
Analogous to the pesky Norman doors (and switches). Here is a link to the product. A simple tube one end of which has a slightly larger diameter than the other. You press the smaller end against the ball so that it enters the tube (but doesn’t fall off). You continue this action until the […]
“At a time when cellphones are letting users do more tricks, from video calling to downloading digital music, one of the latest models from Vodafone Group PLC has no camera, no browser and hardly any icons. Instead of being sleeker and cooler than ever, the phone is large and ordinary-looking”. Read full article.
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This is what deals can do to people. And its not even Thanksgiving!
“A rush to purchase $50 used laptops turned into a violent stampede Tuesday, with people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over. One woman went so far to wet herself rather than surrender her place in […]
Click here to visit. One of the earliest websites (now mostly defunct) that discussed Human Factors and other issues Norman talks about in The Design of Everyday Things.
“How difficult can setting an alarm clock be? That’s a question of much interest in the hotel industry. Responding to guests confused by the numerous unexplained buttons on their alarm clocks, hotel companies are introducing simpler models designed to be more user-friendly.” (Read full article)
One of the yummy aspects of a laissez-faire market is that you get to gorge on delicious deals that are cooked up in corporate kitchens. The food isn’t always fun though. In comes the concept of Everyday deals- when a company has a deal at any given time. For me, Dell is the epitome (and […]
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Norman talks about ‘affordances’ in The Design of Everyday Things and he defines it as:
“The perceived and actual properties of the thing, primarily those fundamental properties that determine just how the thing could be possibly used for…A chair affords (”is for”) support and, therefore affords sitting.”
Many hotels use card based keys nowadays. You insert […]
CNN.com’s free video service is not something they can really be proud of yet. Some really ameteurish bloopers going on. See Part I. One more issue I have repeatedly noticed is that the video does not always correspond with the story (html) next to which it appears.
This is from 8/02/2005 (07:58 ET)
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USB cables are now ubiquitous- they are used in digital cameras, external hard disks, MP3 players, cell phones, PDA’s, I/O devices (keyboards, mice, printers), just to name a few.
The design of USB aimed to remove the need for adding separate expansion cards into the computer’s ISA or PCI bus, and improve plug-and-play capabilities by allowing […]