Comments on: Bad User Interface: The Apple iPod http://blog.hanfordlemoore.com/2005/11/22/bad-user-interface-the-apple-ipod User Interface , Art, Design, Games Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:15:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Bad User Interface: The Apple iPod by: Hanford http://blog.hanfordlemoore.com/2005/11/22/bad-user-interface-the-apple-ipod#comment-58181 Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:50:15 +0000 http://blog.hanfordlemoore.com/2005/11/22/bad-user-interface-the-apple-ipod#comment-58181 I agree, cell phones aren't much better. I agree, cell phones aren’t much better.

]]> Comment on Bad User Interface: The Apple iPod by: Jim http://blog.hanfordlemoore.com/2005/11/22/bad-user-interface-the-apple-ipod#comment-58066 Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:06:37 +0000 http://blog.hanfordlemoore.com/2005/11/22/bad-user-interface-the-apple-ipod#comment-58066 And somehow this horrible "hold the play button for a few seconds to turn it off and hope it takes" is vastly different and more confusing than the "hold the stop button for a few seconds to turn it off and hope it takes" functionality found on every cell phone in the world? That's the one I find really boggling. Pressing "stop" to turn the phone *on*. Why not hold the green(=go, start, on) initiate call button to turn it on instead? Or instead of "instead", make the phone turn on/off with a multi-second hold of either button? (In the iPod case, the Play button is also the Pause button. So it's not that you are holding Play for several seconds, you're holding Pause for that long, doing as "super-pause". Okay, not that anyone would really think of it that way when trying to use the device…) And somehow this horrible “hold the play button for a few seconds to turn it off and hope it takes” is vastly different and more confusing than the “hold the stop button for a few seconds to turn it off and hope it takes” functionality found on every cell phone in the world?

That’s the one I find really boggling. Pressing “stop” to turn the phone on. Why not hold the green(=go, start, on) initiate call button to turn it on instead? Or instead of “instead”, make the phone turn on/off with a multi-second hold of either button?

(In the iPod case, the Play button is also the Pause button. So it’s not that you are holding Play for several seconds, you’re holding Pause for that long, doing as “super-pause”. Okay, not that anyone would really think of it that way when trying to use the device…)

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