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I feel like modern tv remotes are the opposite of this principle. It is often the case that almost every single button will when pushed in some way interrupt th
by stevage 7mo ago
I feel like modern tv remotes are the opposite of this principle. It is often the case that almost every single button will when pushed in some way interrupt the current program, often jumping out to a different menu or changing to a different program or something. It makes handling the remote or trying to change the volume a fraught experience.
- bookofjoe 7mo agoOMG you hit my third rail when it comes to the brain-dead-designed Apple TV remote. After using one for many years I STILL press the wrong button many times every day, and in the dark, since the buttons are NOT backlit, I routinely press an unintended button. I think the user interface designer was promoted to create the Vision Pro UI/UX which is even more dreadful.
- pseudohadamard 7mo agoThis is why I have a drawer full of antipattern design remotes (which is almost all of them really except perhaps LG Magic), and use a Logitech Harmony instead. Worst remote I've ever seen was a Sony, just a solid grid of tiny rubber squares with functionality arranged apparently at random, this sort of thing: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/574AAOSwevZalUBY/s-l1600.jpg https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/574AAOSwevZalUBY/s-l1600.jpg. Note the grey mode switch which changes the function of a lot of the controls. It was like Sony's engineers had an internal competition to design the most unusable remote in the industry.