A small but important thing about iPhone 3 vs. 4 and 5:
The 3 had a curved back. The 4 and 5 have flat backs. This is not just aesthetics but also functionality.
Picking the 3 up from a table top was easy. Pressing your thumb against one edge will make the device tilt and allow you to get your other fingers under the other edge and grab it. Easy. With the 5, you can’t do that.
Also the edges of the 4 and 5 are sharp and unpleasant to hold, while the 3 had rounded edges.
The 6 has round edges but still a flat back. Of course thickness (or should I say thinness) is a competition parameter. But it would only take a few billion pico-mus to curve the back just enough to be able to do the 3-thing.
Any hope for the 7?
Best,
Nic
Den 24/06/2015 kl. 16.58 skrev Don Norman <[log in to unmask]>:
> In a post on a completely different topic, Keith said
> :
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> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Keith Russell <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Mostly these days, I am an experiment in Steve Job¹s reality of hiding
>> buttons and removing functionality.
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>
> yeah!
>
> I am extremely annoyed by the cult of design that now pervades the world,
> namely that design is making things look pretty. I thought we had gotten
> over that. Well, Jobs and Ive has brought it back.
>
> Our gesture-based tools -- both Apple and Google's Android -- are
> more attractive than before, less usable. Nice, attractive fonts, too tiny
> and too low contrast to be legible. No more discoverability (we lost menus
> and important signifiers), nor more feedback, no more recoverability (every
> so often you can shake your device and it will undo, but not only is this
> bizarre, there is no way of knowing where this is true.
>
> More attractive, less usable. Yet corporations all over are gloating over
> the power of design.
>
> Grr. I could go on at length -- and one of these days I will. And in a
> more public forum than this one.
>
> Do I want attractive things? Of course. But I also want understandable
> things, functional things.
>
> Apple and its followers (Yes, Google, I'm talking about you) have
> given design the wrong reputation.
>
> Don
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> Don Norman
> Prof. and Director, DesignLab, UC San Diego
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