Thursday, August 28th, 2008
This just in: the bigger a target is, the easier it is to hit. Hats off to whoever designed this box for Trader Joe’s! I’m sure it speeds things up for both their cashiers and customers by providing a huge target for the price scanners. This is a perfect use of otherwise-wasted space.
I’m curious to [...]
This is the spin cycle selector knob on a Frigidaire Gallery washing machine. I’m not sure what this means: does “fast” spin the clothes faster and remove more water, or does it spin them at the same speed for less time, making it finish faster?
These two possible interpretations are opposites in terms of the effect [...]
I just got an iPhone. This thing is pure user experience: it doesn’t let you do anything you couldn’t already do with other mobile phones before (except being able to interact with voicemail messages individually, which is great), but it makes using those features easy, intuitive, and fun, which in my opinion is why people [...]