Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
On Friday 29 June 2007 12:32, Richard Terry wrote:
Imagine your fanging down the freeway or round a mountain road in a
superbly designed car, everything works intuitively, at your fingertips,
the driving experience is a joy, it just works.
or another thing - in my car the rear fog light switch is on the centre front
console, near where the hazard light switch is.
the front fog light switch is on the other side of the steering wheel in a
difficult to reach spot, near a control which alters the angle of the normal
headlights (dip more, vs see further down the road)
in the next model a great breakthrough - one switch does both
that's a functional idea.
i've just bought a mouse that allows me to adjust the volume, or mute,
to go backwards / forwards in programs (photos, songs, pages, etc) plus
notifies me of mail or messaging from specific people by flashing, all
on the mouse itself
apart from the normal scroll and 3 (normal) buttons, it also scrolls
laterally; it is clever enough to switch itself off when the computer is
turned off
it is highly configurable with provision to alter what its buttons do
within specific programs
it's only got windoze drivers, but i can live with that - it will work
under linux as a mouse with 3 buttons and scroll anyway
imagine if the people that designed this were to help design medical
software interfaces (or liz's car); things with the power to do what we
wanted and could tweak to be intuitive to us rather than learn someone
else's peculiarities
*that's* a functional idea
ash
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