Not Quite There

“Design” is “in.” Hot. A done deal.

Not quite so fast. Susan and I bought a new high-definition TV for our Boston house, and an accompanying DVD player. Problem: It/they come/s with three (count ’em) controllers—sporting (count ’em) 117 buttons. Okay, subtract the 0 through 9 on each of the three … and you’re still left with 87 buttons.

87 = A lot. (87 = Useless. For me.) (To be fair, my 8-year-old niece, Honor Sargent, mastered the whole thing in minutes.)

Design, thou art the fairest of maidens—but please, for us Boomers-Geezers with the $$$, get the “usability” right!

Tom Peters posted this on February 20, 2006, in Design.
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