A perfect VCR
The VCR has been a bad example for user interface design for many reasons. However, in my opinion, it is because they are design from the bottom up. In other words they are design much in the same way software was designed and that is a function at a time. VCR's were not designed with the end user in mind and therefore not user friendly. They may be very well designed from an engineer point of view, being error free and understandable. All this thinking about a VCR reminds me of something Jay Leno said, Jay said he went to Bill Gates house for a fundraiser and when he was there he went into the living room and saw his (Gates) VCR flashing 12:00, the punch line for this joke was if Bill cannot program a VCR how do they (VCR companies) expect the rest of us to program one. I found this very funny and I still think it is funny to this day, because it is so true. Another problem with the user interface is that all of them are different. Every company has a different user interface for each model. For example I have two VCRs from the same company (Hitachi) I got both of them with-in one year of each other. One of them was an upper model HI-FI multi-system for the living room and one was a lower model multi-system
2. Interface based on icons and text The perfect VCR interface, if there can ever be one, would be the simplest to use in my opinion. The really question is whether there will ever be a perfect VCR interface. With the developments in DVD I think the VCR is going the way of the 8-track tape, but we will see. Here is a list of function I think the perfect VCR interface would have: 1. Self set time and date, like a computer 4. Some kind of memory for storing programs An interface based on icons and text. Would be much the same we have in the software industry, there would be a set of understandable icons through out the interfaces. Each company would make interfaces that operate in a different way but all the icons and text would be much the same through out the industry. The best would be if one or two companies created the interface and then sold it to all the VCR manufactures this way all the VCR would be the same just like computers only being of 3 different OS. You would use your remote to move an arrow around the screen to select menus and icon for the options you wish to use or set.
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