On 22 Jan 2008, at 19:23, Bruno Figueiredo wrote: [snip] > My question is: why do people keep buying products with crappy > interfaces? I > guess that since most products ship with poor interfaces, people > have very > low expectations. But these kind of products have been around for > what? 15 > years? They should know better by now. Why do people keep giving > incentives > to companies who deliver poor products?
Because the choice is between a product with a bad-UI, and no- product. Or a product with a good-UI vs a product with a crappy-UI and more functionality that the user needs. The UI on my phone sucks - but there wasn't a phone with a good UI at the functionality/price-point I wanted. I really don't think it's an issue with users being dim and picking the wrong product. I think it's a problem with companies being dim and not producing better products that can win with a UI at appropriate levels of functionality/price. Adrian ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
