Telephones are not for people
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Before you begin, consider a few pictures.
1. Keyboard.
2. Mouse-type manipulators.
3. Mobile phones.
It is not difficult to notice on all the pictures at the beginning there are models that were relevant at the beginning of the 90s, then the beginning of the century, and several modern keyboards, mice and phones. I intend not to publish a lot of images of various products of different companies, but limited myself to a few, just to show the development trends in these three areas. So, keyboards and mice have become much more ergonomic than in the last century. Modern mice almost completely repeat the anatomy of the hand. Got dimples under the fingers, become more prominent, the brush practically does not get tired during work. The keyboards also changed for the better, the central buttons became larger, the overall geometry and direction of the buttons repeated the natural position of the hands during typing. On the example of keyboards and mice, one can clearly see the evolution from strict geometric lines in the direction of rounded shapes, bends repeating the human anatomy. And what about the phones? Since the appearance of the first phone, their concept has not changed at all. All the same regular rectangular shape and lattice buttons. Of course, in addition to the classic design, there were also “sliders” and “clamshell”, but they also did not take a step towards the person. The same clear rectangular shape, exactly the same location of the numeric buttons. But after all the form in the form of a brick is not convenient for a human brush. When typing sms with your thumb, we instinctively squeeze the tube a little more to keep it in hand. Still, how many times did the phone slip out of my hands? This happens too often. And the reason is in an uncomfortable, archaic form, not adapted to the human hand. As for the layout of the buttons with a grid, it would be more suitable for some robot, but not for humans. Pressing the rightmost button in the bottom row with your thumb is not convenient in most cases. On the phone there are buttons, which account for significantly more clicks and still they are almost always all the same form. Until now, on some phones, the Russian alphabet is divided into 4 letters on 9 buttons strictly alphabetically. This leads to the fact that you need to make three clicks to enter the letter "o", although this is the most common letter in the Russian text and at the same time, the letters "f", "sh", "b" begin the bottom row. Absurd.
Now an incomprehensible fashion for thin, small phones has gone, but thin does not mean convenient. Rather, the phone just sinks in your hand, you need to firmly hold it with your fingers so that it does not slip out. On some small phones it is already difficult to hit the buttons without touching the neighboring ones. For me, it remains a mystery why for so much time no one has yet done, and does not even try to make (looking at the miserable concepts of the future) a really convenient phone. Instead, they are chasing after thickness, pixels and megahertz, forgetting what phones do for people, not for robots.
Before you begin, consider a few pictures.
1. Keyboard.
2. Mouse-type manipulators.
3. Mobile phones.
It is not difficult to notice on all the pictures at the beginning there are models that were relevant at the beginning of the 90s, then the beginning of the century, and several modern keyboards, mice and phones. I intend not to publish a lot of images of various products of different companies, but limited myself to a few, just to show the development trends in these three areas. So, keyboards and mice have become much more ergonomic than in the last century. Modern mice almost completely repeat the anatomy of the hand. Got dimples under the fingers, become more prominent, the brush practically does not get tired during work. The keyboards also changed for the better, the central buttons became larger, the overall geometry and direction of the buttons repeated the natural position of the hands during typing. On the example of keyboards and mice, one can clearly see the evolution from strict geometric lines in the direction of rounded shapes, bends repeating the human anatomy. And what about the phones? Since the appearance of the first phone, their concept has not changed at all. All the same regular rectangular shape and lattice buttons. Of course, in addition to the classic design, there were also “sliders” and “clamshell”, but they also did not take a step towards the person. The same clear rectangular shape, exactly the same location of the numeric buttons. But after all the form in the form of a brick is not convenient for a human brush. When typing sms with your thumb, we instinctively squeeze the tube a little more to keep it in hand. Still, how many times did the phone slip out of my hands? This happens too often. And the reason is in an uncomfortable, archaic form, not adapted to the human hand. As for the layout of the buttons with a grid, it would be more suitable for some robot, but not for humans. Pressing the rightmost button in the bottom row with your thumb is not convenient in most cases. On the phone there are buttons, which account for significantly more clicks and still they are almost always all the same form. Until now, on some phones, the Russian alphabet is divided into 4 letters on 9 buttons strictly alphabetically. This leads to the fact that you need to make three clicks to enter the letter "o", although this is the most common letter in the Russian text and at the same time, the letters "f", "sh", "b" begin the bottom row. Absurd.
Now an incomprehensible fashion for thin, small phones has gone, but thin does not mean convenient. Rather, the phone just sinks in your hand, you need to firmly hold it with your fingers so that it does not slip out. On some small phones it is already difficult to hit the buttons without touching the neighboring ones. For me, it remains a mystery why for so much time no one has yet done, and does not even try to make (looking at the miserable concepts of the future) a really convenient phone. Instead, they are chasing after thickness, pixels and megahertz, forgetting what phones do for people, not for robots.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/21069/
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