Small Surfaces » remote http://smallsurfaces.com mobile user interface design / user experience design / interaction design resources Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:10:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Genesis of the TiVo remote http://smallsurfaces.com/2008/08/genesis-of-the-tivo-remote/ http://smallsurfaces.com/2008/08/genesis-of-the-tivo-remote/#comments Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:43:42 +0000 Gabriel White http://www.smallsurfaces.com/?p=537 “Like any remote, the designers were adamant about keeping the remote’s button layout as simple as possible. But with the DVR’s numerous features, the designers needed to create lots of extra buttons. To keep things straight, each button needed to have a distinctive feel, giving the ability to control the remote without even looking at it, which Newby described as a “key Braille-ability” surprisingly helped by the “blank finger parking spots between keys” that were equally important.”

Link: Story of a Peanut: The TiVo Remote’s Untold Past, Present and Future (gizmodo.com)

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See the full size cartoon here or here.

Link: Roz Chast: New Yorker Cartoon (thenewyorkerstore.com)

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