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USB-C group hopes new logos will solve customer confusion
- peanut_worm 5y agoI don't think I have ever seen the “Certified USB” logo on a product
- Something1234 5y agoI think I might have and it was always on like sketchy packaging for weird products.
- finfinfin 5y ago"clearly indicating support for 60W or 240W as defined by the USB Power Delivery 3.1 Specification." None of the logos indicate support for 60W. It’s silly to expect ordinary consumers to guess that by omission. Also a very strange choice to use the same design for 2 different attributes with numeric values. As if they don’t have any design support and rely on electrical engineers to mock up the logos.
- hulitu 5y agoAnd imagine that those will be printed on a cable or on an USB connector. They really need a japanese to teach them about poka yoke.
- atonse 5y agoThis feels like the joke that keeps giving. Why don’t they just come up with something simpler? instead of showing wattage and 3.1 that really doesn’t mean much to most people, why not just usb for video files, for photo files etc. Or USB Low Power, High Power etc.
- yellowapple 5y agoI feel like color coding would be far more intuitive and more readily pass the "Grandpa Test" (i.e. can my grandpa figure out what to plug into where without constantly second-guessing both himself and me). A lot easier to convey "plug like color into like color" than to expect the average end-user to understand what these logos mean - especially when I can barely wrap my head around what these logos mean in practice.
- atonse 5y agoThe only issue with color is that it's more of a "greater than or equal to" situation. So you'd have to say things like "you can plug in the red plug into a blue, green, or yellow one"
- yellowapple 5y agoI was thinking just put multiple colors on the ports and/or labels.