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Co-Fu |
Monday, 5 April 1999 |
It has taken hours, and finally I succeeded.
Yes, I've ploughed my way through the whole mobile phone manual.
It's quite a sturdy booklet, even bigger than the device itself.
To me, the most important function is: availability, answer the phone everywhere. And yes, it does have that feature, well hidden though. I expected a large, well lighted button, at an easy spot, my right thumb for example. No no, that’s the place for the ‘record memo’ button. How about my forefinger? Wrong again, that is where I could set the volume. For answering the phone I must press a small button, badly illuminated and at an awkward place. The primary function is a bit lost due to an abundance of unused features. What a shame. Feature overkill. this is the disease that computer applications too suffer. Text editors have so many gadgets that text editing becomes pretty hard. Even something simple like a web browser has many bells and whistles. There is hardly any screen space left for web pages. The pages themselves are not too good either. Various blinking advertisement distract attention from the contents. Did you ever try to read the online Sunday Mirror (sundaymirror...) or Internet World Daily (www.iw.com)? It is a battle between your concentration and the aggressive commercials. A bit of simplicity would help. The KISS motto (Keep It Simple Stupid) applies to GUI designers. To Design is to omit. In business many companies return to their core activities. Software should head for the same direction, back to Core Functionality (Co-Fu). E.g. I write these Nut’s Weeklies with the simple WordPad, and that does he job very well.
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