Comments on: According to Apple, Ergonomics is Ugly

By: Saikat

Saikat — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:15:13 +0000

Just found that this mouse won the “Best of best of product design 2010″ at Red dot . I find it quite strange…

What do you think is their criteria for the ‘best of the best’?!

http://de.red-dot.org/2775.html?&cHash=a4cee31dfb589c28ec1988722e99e8ac&detail=7554&year=0

By: john

john — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:36:25 +0000

I’ve been using a portable-size Logitech Bluetooth mouse in my home work environment for the past year and a half. It served its purpose, but it’s slowly been dying: mis-clicking, not clicking at all, clicking 20 times from a single click. On my Mac rig at the day job, I use a Mighty Mouse, with the grey nipple of doom. It gets clogged far too easily, and more frequently, the longer it’s been in use. When I saw the Magic Mouse on its launch day — multi-touch support, sleek and slim, nipple-less — I purchased it via the Store immediately. It looked like just what the doctor ordered.

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:00:04 +0000

there a few ways to control a mice with your hand but in general there are “arm movers” which rest their palm on the mouse and the mice mover (me) which move the mouse inside their hand under theri palm.

anyway i get the design, I get the problem, but i hate apples arrogance on this.

secon problem with the mouse is there is no real middle mouse click (hold) without a hacked driver and on windows nothing …

I think almost every reader of this site has to do with 3D apps somehow so how do you navigate in 3D Space ?

regards mogh

By: Parvenu

Parvenu — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:24:28 +0000

…coliani…

By: William Sutton

William Sutton — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:51:16 +0000

This topic came up today regarding smartphone designs that were iPhone knock-offs (for form). the iPhone seems to be inspired by a slippery bar of soap–after my first broken screen, I got one of those heavy-duty tough cases by Speck….
But why are the competitors to the iPhone choosing the same shape, rather than addressing what are arguable flaws? It seems to me that there is some room for improvement! Why not pick-up an iphone-shaped block of clay and “squeeze” some ergonomics into it!? (then you could just use that as a pattern to make a phone a little less likely to slip out of your hand)