"Flick to tv" represents everything wrong with product design today
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#3Great little post and totally true. Related, the Airplay implementation is a good example of restraint in interaction design. Airfoil does much more, but it isn't as natural or easy to grok as Apple's implementation.
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#4What is this referring to? Is there an actual product that allows you to flick to TV and provides no other UI for that functionality?
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#5What is this referring to? Is there an actual product that allows you to flick to TV and provides no other UI for that functionality?
Not sure how this relates to the real world experience, but there's a Samsung Phone TV ad that shows a businessman flicking his presentation onto the conference screen.
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#6What is this referring to? Is there an actual product that allows you to flick to TV and provides no other UI for that functionality?
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#7The last sentence absolutely says it all. Great post.
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#83 years ago, I made a prototype for LG of a social remote control. It allowed anyone in the room with a web browser (including smart phones) to send videos to the tv. It was great for group tv watching, since it gives everyone the ability to search simultaneously for a video, instead of instructing the one guy with the remote where to go.
Anyway, LG wasnt interested until I made a super gimmicky way of sending videos to the tv instead of using a button. You held your phone up to the tv, and it would transfer.
Concept Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETRwc7B_NNc
This limited it to apps instead of web browsers and was less reliable. But it was slightly cooler than pressing a button.
It distracted them from the whole point of my idea though. They just wanted a cool remote control they could sell with their tvs.
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#9Solution: Let these interface gimmicks be the stuff of tech conventions and demos, and never part of any mass-produced product.
But maybe some marketing folks, seeing the success of Apple, have reasoned that these gimmicks can sell products in the short-term, at least until consumers discover the problems with them.
At the end of this era of tapping and rubbing little screens with our fat, dirty fingers, we may be reminded why we had tactile interfaces to begin with. What ever happened to the PDA stylus?
Re: "Flick to tv" represents everything wrong with product design today
#10Solution: Let these interface gimmicks be the stuff of tech conventions and demos, and never part of any mass-produced product. But maybe some marketing folks, seeing the success of Apple, have reasoned that these gimmicks can sell products in the short-term, at least until consumers discover the problems with them. At the end of this era of tapping and rubbing little screens with our fat, dirty fingers, we may be re…
Constantly fumbling with; forgetting or losing the PDA stylus – happened to the PDA stylus.