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Is Your Mobile Phone Blinking 12:00?
from the how-the-hell-do-you-program-this? dept
The famous blinking "12:00" on a VCR has been a symbol of bad user interfaces and confused non-tech-savvy consumers for years. However, with increasingly complicated mobile phones coming out, some are wondering if the mobile phone represents the VCR of this generation: a device that's simply too difficult for your average user to understand its most basic features. As the writer notes, this isn't because people don't read the manuals, but that the phone and software makers seem to make the interfaces as complex as possible, giving very little thought as to how the average user would actually get stuff done.
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Crap UI design
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Non-issue
Version adjust the time for daylight savings on the network.
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Controling complexity
we can take pictures with the cell phone and use it to send pictures by
connecting to the internet.
One thing that doesn't help is that the GUI of these devices is limited to
a (literal) handful of buttons. The challenge is to be able to do what you
want on the cell phone with the few buttons that they do provide on the phone.
-cmh
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