Design as choice
Encountered yesterday in Venice Beach:
Why do I blog this? design is about choice, why have some letters been chosen on that keypad? why others have been discarded? perhaps there aren’t anything that starts with “I” or “Y” in the choices proposed.
Another example about design choices: why there aren’t any cut/copy and paste on the iphone?
March 6th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
How does it work? It looks like you type in an arbitrary two-character code printed beside each song title on the menu. For example “Indiana Wants Me” might be L2 while “You Light Up My Life” might be 51. This implies the letters “I” and “O” are excluded to prevent confusion with the numerals “1” and “0.” It’s a solution to a usability problem. “W” and on are excluded maybe because the system can’t handle over 900 songs anyway.
As for the iPhone’s lack of copy and paste, that’s not understood by science.
March 6th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
About iphone copy/paste, there’s a hint about that in this patent:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/apple-patent-hints-at-advanced-multitouch-features-iphone-cop/