Wednesday October 26, 2005
Wednesday October 26, 2005 Say what?
So I wear a hearing aid, in purple mind you. I know it doesn't match the hair, but they didn't have magenta, only purple.
Recently, it starting acting oddly. Might have been all that sand from making sand castles on vacation. Could have been the big oops taking a shower one day. You never know. But I wasn't too worried as the volume switch was still beeping.
Then we had some customer meetings and I kept turning the volume up, and up, and up. Hmmm. Starting to get a clue, are we?
Took the bloody thing in and it wasn't working at all. Just the placebo effect - aka, the only working part was the sound associated with moving the volume up or down.
If its dead, its dead. Turn OFF the sounds too when you shut out the lights.
( Oct 26 2005, 04:56:24 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [1]
People get into car just fine.
[evil laugh]
The door has several controls on it. Window go up and down controls. Knobby thing that locks and unlocks. [A picture will get added soon.]
But where the **** is the door handle? Remember the car is black, ALL black. Yes, even the interior. And, mostly importantly, the door handle.
Product design amusement then occurs. The door handle is just not obvious.
First, the handle is down lower on the door such that even with a smaller person in the seat, the handle is hidden down next to their leg. Its below where they expect to find it from a visual line-of-sight perspective.
Second, the door handle is integrated into the door panel design. There is a 'bar' (for holding on to when the driver accelerates) and a sort of bench to lay your arm onto when holding onto the bar. Under the bench and to one end of a carpeted area that is really a compartment, there is a square of plastic with lines on it. Thats the handle. Nice clean design. Few affordances.
8 of 10 times with a new 'user', I have to point out the handle. Then I have to tell them to pull on it.
( Oct 26 2005, 04:33:19 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [0]
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