In reference to the dizzying array of dials, buttons, and sliders which adorn everything from cars to mobile phones. MIT professor John Maeda declares us to be 'drowning in functionality'. At the request of wired magazine he applied his scrutiny to Sony's DCR-SR100 camcorder.
I love the idea of giving people pictures of products, and asking them to scribble notations all over the paper. The real gem in Maeda's annotations is the bit where he announces;
"I love the 'Easy' button. It's like "oh, this product is hard to use, but we'll fix it by having an Easy button." Well I kept pressing it, hoping it would get easier, it doesn't!"
His rules are outlines in a book entitled The Laws of Simplicity
(via wired)
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