HumComInt
Monday, October 18, 2004
 
Are you sure that's your final answer?
Just a little note, as Emma was saying it can take a long while to integrate yourself with a new unknown device. Take the playstation 2 controller for instance, last christmas when my grandparents came over to visit, they wanted to have a game of Who wants to be a Millionaire. Being the know-it-alls they always have been, I was shocked when they both crashed out at the £100 question. Why? If you take a look at the directional digital pad on the controller:



The problem they had was that they were confused with which button to press to move the arrow left, right, up and down. According to them, the button on the left was pointing right, and up was pointing down, and vice versa. This is bad design on Sony's part as they just assume that we would use our common sense to know which button to press. This could be made more obvious, by having the controller more clearly indicated.
To be honest though, i'm pretty certain it was just an excuse that he couldn't answer the questions...

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