Comments on: Usability: Your Mom Loves It, or, I Friggin’ Hate My Car Stereo http://catschwamm.com/2009/09/08/usability-your-mom-loves-it-or-i-friggin%e2%80%99-hate-my-car-stereo/ Making good software and building good teams. Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:49:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dorian http://catschwamm.com/2009/09/08/usability-your-mom-loves-it-or-i-friggin%e2%80%99-hate-my-car-stereo/#comment-75 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:27:14 +0000 http://catsch.wordpress.com/?p=31#comment-75 I really feel you man, I have the same situation with every cellphone I’ve ever owned. The hardware design has all been amazing and very well-tested, you can tell. And some douche designed the software in a bubble, obviously being told over and over again not to think too much about it and just get all the features in there super fast, because we already blew the budget figuring out whether the buttons were too small or whether the colour would appeal to the critical 13 – 17-year-old female market etc.

So many $300 phones that are useless. That’s why people are into the iPhone: because Apple found people who’d never used the product and asked them to try and put on some music, and didn’t interpret people’s confusion as an insult.

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