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Worst Design Failures
- grzaks 13y agoI would personally add iOS7 to the list.
- jaryd 13y agoFor those of you who are annoyed by the shutdown/restart processes in Windows 8, consider adding some shortcuts to your desktop and start menu to make this process 1-click[1]: Shutdown: Right-click on the desktop, click "New > Shortcut" and enter "shutdown /s /t 0" Restart: Right-click on the desktop, click "New > Shortcut" and enter "shutdown /r /t 0" You can change the icon to look more appropriate, and pin this to the start menu or task bar. [1]: http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-add-windows-8-shutdown-restart-shortcuts-to-start-screen-taskbar-and-desktop/ http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-add-windows-8-shutdown-rest...
- dotmariusz 13y agoI'm sure that's something every average Windows users does as a first thing after they install the system. The point in usability is not having to do these things for common and obvious actions.
- scholia 13y agoI think ordinary users are supposed to press the (physical) on/off button. That's really simple.
- RossM 13y agoAlthough this only suspends the machine (by default, as far as I remember the only other option is hibernate).
- scholia 13y agoYes. Push the power button and your Windows 8 machine should resume in about two seconds, and even after hibernating overnight, come back in less than 20 seconds. You don't want users to turn it off, and they shouldn't really need to restart it more often than Microsoft Update does already. Hiding away the reboot process is therefore a useful bit of design....
- ekianjo 13y agoWindows Mobile? Worst OS ever? Why ? It was very usable with a stylus, and you could do tons of what you now do on the iPhone like 5 years earlier (or more). It was not perfect but it certainly was not bad. Google Wave ? Bad usability ? Where? No reasons given. Sony Remote for Google TV -> what's wrong with it? You don't like having a keyboard? Again, no reason given, just a picture that is supposed to explain everything. Shitty Blogspam. The author did not even sign with his name (because they are several of them in About Us) so I guess he's not too proud of his shitty list.
- Herald_MJ 13y agoGoogle Wave was great. It's failure wasn't due to design either.
- grzaks 13y agoDue to what then?
- sentenza 13y agoBad rollout (invite only) and marketing. They generated a lot of hype and then kept people from using it until interest died off again.
- FireBeyond 13y agoLaunch rollout: "Here's a collaborative engine, to help you work and interact with others. Others who likely won't be able to use the product, because we'll make invitations rarer than six-leaf clovers until we pronounce 'failure to launch', kill the product, and then open it up more."
- mtreder 13y agoOK than. Couple of reasons - Windows Mobile was a single worse case of Fits Law violation. Small interface elements hard to reach even with stylus. I remember that one of my test devices was HTC Diamond. I don't recall slower, uglier mobile device. Apart from that UI guidelines were a joke. Microsoft tried to fit Windows into a mobile device and failed. Phone 8 is a completely new approach. Just try to compare them. Google Wave failed to address one particular useful 'use case'. The interface was a mess and people didn't know what to do with it. Sony Remote? It was actually canceled and changed because of problems with usability. Lots of buttons with lack of clear information architecture - straight way to design hell. Each and one of mentioned devices could be throughly analyzed. I just thought it will be more fun to list them :). Thanks for comment anyway.
- scholia 13y agoThis bit of obvious linkbait would look less stupid if the headline read "10 of the Worst Gadget Design Failures of the Past 10 Years", though it still wouldn't show much knowledge of gadgets....
- davewasthere 13y agoThe worst spelling of all time as well. The sheer number of errors in that 'article' made my eyes bleed.