Comments on: Why so many things are badly designed http://last-straw.net/why-so-many-things-are-badly-designed/ The weblog of Christiaan Briggs Mon, 14 May 2012 08:15:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Scoox http://last-straw.net/why-so-many-things-are-badly-designed/comment-page-1/#comment-56599 Scoox Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:19:35 +0000 http://last-straw.net/?p=2014#comment-56599 Well, Apple products look pretty, but that doesn't make them a good design. I think many of Apple products have rather inconvenient designes: - Mouse - You cannot lift it off the table and continue holding down the mouse buttons. - Generally speaking, too few buttons which trades usability for looks - No hardware eject optical media button - No delete key on their keyboards - Apple portable players require users to use iTunes rather than allowing users to simply drag and drop files onto the portable player. iTune is the reason why I don't own any Apple portable media players, by the way. - Their OS also has a lot of annoying features, e.g. mouse acceleration, menu bar is tied to one monitor, window resizing can only be done from one corner... the list goes on. So yeah, Apple some times has good ideas and some times they should pull their own head out of their a**. Well, Apple products look pretty, but that doesn’t make them a good design. I think many of Apple products have rather inconvenient designes:
– Mouse — You cannot lift it off the table and continue holding down the mouse buttons.
– Generally speaking, too few buttons which trades usability for looks
– No hardware eject optical media button
– No delete key on their keyboards
– Apple portable players require users to use iTunes rather than allowing users to simply drag and drop files onto the portable player. iTune is the reason why I don’t own any Apple portable media players, by the way.
– Their OS also has a lot of annoying features, e.g. mouse acceleration, menu bar is tied to one monitor, window resizing can only be done from one corner… the list goes on.

So yeah, Apple some times has good ideas and some times they should pull their own head out of their a**.

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