Flashing twelves (was: Twitter successors)
Rick Moen <[email protected]>
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Quoting Paul Zander ([email protected]): > Early on, kitchen appliances tended to have buttons labeled "clock > set". Not so the typical VCR. And the manual, assuming you could > find it, was often not well written, at least for English readers. > The industry has come a long way in making better user interfaces. The inevitable race to the bottom on cost stands in the way, because although the electronics to support decent user interfaces has long been part of the baseline "chip with enough grunt to control a clock-radio" spec, it's always tempting to omit the physical buttons and panel markings to provide a clear UI, not to mention likewise not-free designer time and effort. So, the "set the time" UI gets shoehorned onto already-needed controls overloaded with little "H" and "M" notations to indicate "if switched into a specific mode, your volume control can adjust minutes, and your tuning knob can adjust hours". The resulting puzzle is typically not brain surgery, yet a very large fraction of the public cannot be bothered. Whether there's a manual and whether it makes sense is immaterial, to them. _______________________________________________ conspire mailing list [email protected] http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire