LOL. Good answers, y'all! And to Jared, I was fondly reminded of the '67 VW Beetle my dad got me as my first car. There was one interface that mattered. He could lift the engine out with one arm (he was an electrician, with years of pulling wire through conduit) and swap it, which was a good thing, because I went through three of them.
Several other interfaces didn't matter as much, like the brakes, because I could shift down, you see. And the shifter, because to shift down, I had to learn to double-clutch. (can you imagine parents these days letting their kids run around like that?) And then, on the third engine, the defrost blowers didn't line up with the ducts anymore, so I drove back and forth from basketball practice and games all winter in Alaska scraping the inside of the window. It died for good the night of the senior bonfire after graduation. Lest you are all 21st Century horrified, I should also note that my family also had these same Beetles as the family car in the 60s and 70s, so as kids, my brother and I rode around in the backseat without the seatbelt interface (or kiddie seats), hanging on to those cute little straps. I wonder if the good old "Folks-mobile" bears any relation to the cheap cars coming in India that many hope will keep entire families from riding around perched precariously on motorbikes. Chris On Jan 25, 2008 6:00 PM, Jared M. Spool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 25, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Christine Boese wrote: > > A fart in the wind? > > > A fart in the wind, when well placed, can certainly matter. > > That said, it's the case that the quality of the interface only matters in > a selling situation sometime. > > Having just purchased a car for my 17-year-old, I looked for certain > qualities in the vehicle -- interface wasn't one of them. This car is going > to live its last year of its life under the control of my son. He will do > what it takes to learn its operation. I'll never drive it. Price and > reliability were far more important to me. > > Not all qualities are important to all people all the time. As much as > we'd like to think the ones we contribute are always drivers, there are > plenty of situations when they have no effect. > > Jared > > Jared M. Spool > User Interface Engineering > 510 Turnpike St., Suite 102, North Andover, MA 01845 > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: +1 978 327 5561 > http://uie.com Blog: http://uie.com/brainsparks > > ________________________________________________________________ *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
