Antithesis of Apple Design : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Antithesis of Apple Design / jurvetson
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Why do companies release “converged” consumer electronics products with designs that seem so random to the user? (Is it the complexity of task? UI mode blur? Diversity of customer expectations?…)After trying to use the Kodak EasyShare-One, I associate “pen on a camera” with Snakes on a Plane. Both are strange bedfellows.For example, a pen can be helpful for photo editing and sharing, but that is a very different use mode than photography. Fumbling with a pen does not make sense when taking photos. Is this obvious to you too, or am I just expressing a personal opinion? This camera requires the pen for basic photography settings (photo mode, exposure, etc). For example, to set the 2 second auto-timer takes 19 taps of the pen… for each photo! (Palm used to have a “tap counter”… a person who job it was to make sure that nothing on the Palm took too many taps.)There is not a lack of button real estate for the typical photography functions. Kodak instead dedicates buttons for “Share” and “Back”, which are used in Edit/Share Mode… when you have to use the pen anyway. The hardware design decisions on buttons vs. pen seem like a random blend among modes of use. With camera in one hand and pen in the other, the handoffs are cumbersome. You can’t use the pen to push the buttons.Needless to say, there is a long list of quirky hardware design decisions (the screen pivots the wrong way, the battery cover slides open when pulling the camera from the case), but the concept of modes of use seems so fundamental. And the software UI seems to be inspired by Windows (note: not a role model). After taking a photo, the camera puts a progress bar over the image, so the user can’t review their shot during the processing delay. And like Windows, even shutting down is not a simple press of the power button. It generates a dialog box and prompts the user to spend a few seconds holding the button. What would Apple do? Soon the iPod will be a method to generate and consume media. That means a camera. Apple will face similar convergence challenges, but I’d bet they keep it simple, elegant and intuitive. Expanding the iPod will be an important and interesting test for Apple, and a canonical example of Winblad’s prediction, earlier this year, that Design Will Rule. |
| 撮影日 | 2006-03-23 12:11:22 |
| 撮影者 | jurvetson , Los Altos, USA |
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| カメラ | DMC-FX7 , Panasonic |
| 露出 | 0.05 sec (1/20) |
| 開放F値 | f/2.8 |