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> The blocker is black and white stripes On my ThinkPad it’s instead painted with a red dot. Because, obviously, the conventional meaning of a red dot appearin
by aendruk 2y ago
> The blocker is black and white stripes
On my ThinkPad it’s instead painted with a red dot. Because, obviously, the conventional meaning of a red dot appearing on a camera is “not recording”.
- darig 2y ago[dead]
- BuildTheRobots 2y agoNot just the weird meaning, but on my last Thinkpad the red dot and the slightly red glean of the camera lens look surprisingly like each other. Even worse I managed to get the cover in a position where it looked like it was closed, but the camera could still see.
- d1sxeyes 2y agoSame on my Dell Latitude. Seems a very odd design decision. They've also centrally aligned the switch so that it's not immediately obvious from the switch position whether the cover is iver the lens or not. Super annoying.
- FridayoLeary 2y agoTo be fair a red dot is a design feature of lenovo. So at least it fits in nicely with the overall look of the laptop.
- j1elo 2y agoI just looked up to my "Lenovo Performance" webcam and saw its red dot [1] looking at me... some product designers have a worrying lack of awareness about de-facto standards and user expectations affecting the UX. [1]: https://imgur.com/Kowt8WJ https://imgur.com/Kowt8WJ