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Genesis of the TiVo remote

“Like any remote, the designers were adamant about keeping the remote’s button layout as simple as possible. But with the DVR’s numerous features, the designers needed to create lots of extra buttons. To keep things straight, each button needed to have a distinctive feel, giving the ability to control the remote without even looking at [...]

Posted 16 August 2008 § mobile ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Text input, upside down

A design for texting with the device orientation inverted. This is just a patent application, and not a real product. It’s an interesting idea, though, because it doesn’t ask people to learn new input systems but rather just change the orientation of the device.
“Typing text messages in this manner is awkward, as the mobile is [...]

Posted 07 February 2007 § mobile ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

Usability v. Human Factors in Complex Mobile Systems

“During initial design of a system, a task list for the whole system is developed, and then tasks are assigned to a component: hardware, software or human based on a number of factors. The point being that access to the total system is always an advantage and why many times closed systems can deliver [...]

Posted 30 November 2005 § uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,