The New Contrarian » usability http://newcontrarian.com Just another Newcontrarian.com weblog Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:45:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Industrial Design http://newcontrarian.com/2007/11/24/industrial-design/ http://newcontrarian.com/2007/11/24/industrial-design/#comments Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:43:14 +0000 Damir Marusic http://www.newcontrarian.com/?p=186 This critique of the Kindle is so far the best and most thorough I’ve come across. I won’t recap the main points of the article because it’s best heard (read?) from the horse’s mouth. Here’s a sketch the author made correcting the most egregious flaws of the device:

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The slide-out keyboard, for one, is spot on. Amazon, hire some consultants!

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