I’ve just read these interesting examples of flawed tech over at Technologizer.com who ask the very same question I keep asking myself whenever I come across unexpected and pointless flaws in consumer electronics devices: “What were they thinking?” Sadly, it would appear that common sense and best practice are still unheard of in 2009 in certain design/engineer circles.
Fifteen Classic PC Design Mistakes
June 16, 2009
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Stop – blinking – at – me!
May 11, 2008This is a perfect example of articles I’m gonna link to in my new category Fellow sufferers: Detlef Grell’s editorial in the current issue of the german computer magazine c’t deals with the annoying habit of consumer electronic devices with clocks (VCR, radio, Hi-fi System…) to blink at you when turned on after having been disconnected from power instead of simply setting themselves via RDS/video signal or at least dim themselves down.
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