As seen in a Berlin hotel

8 Responses to As seen in a Berlin hotel

1. Paul Bolle says:

   Friday November 25, 2011 at 11:12

   It seems there are still two additional ways to insert that card in this lock, aren’t there? Do those fail too?

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2. Björgvin says:

   Friday November 25, 2011 at 12:40

   Paul, you are an engineer, right?

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   • Simon says:

     Sunday November 27, 2011 at 21:20

     Sounds more like a professional tester’s response, to me. In my experience, engineers tend to overlook that kind of thing – and a good tester knows that.
3. Philip Paeps says:

   Friday November 25, 2011 at 15:53

   I was also going to make Paul’s observation.

   Incidentally, the book you mean is called “The Design of Everyday Things” by Donald Norman.

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4. Paul Bolle says:

   Friday November 25, 2011 at 19:14

   @Björgvin: perhaps I’m just easily distracted, clumsy, absent minded, but I seem to recall an endless stream of, sometimes very sophisticated Everyday Things, that only allow you to insert whatever it is they are swallowing (debit cards, credit cards, parking tickets, etc.) the One True Way. A personal favourite are machines that are smart enough to recognize paper money, but insist on having those fed just right.

   But I must say this Everyday Thing, or actually the card, has added a nice twist by using that arrow. A perfect 10, I’d say!

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5. Jakub Steiner says:

   Friday November 25, 2011 at 20:46

   You keep delivering slides to my talks ;)

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   • Ruben says:

     Friday November 25, 2011 at 20:48

     Pics or it didn’t happen ;-)
6. eric-yorba says:

   Monday November 28, 2011 at 03:24

   Looks like they copied the “natural scrolling” from OS X Lion.

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