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My comment featured on Signal vs. Noise

I was just featured as a good commenter on the popular blog Signal vs. Noise. 37signals is a pretty popular up-and-coming company that makes web-based software. They also created Ruby on Rails, the web framework that I’ve recently learned and actually made good use of recently, including on this Typo blog.

Anyway, sorry to bore you with all of that technical mumbo-jumbo. Here is the comment I posted:

I think that the competitive success of a good phone UI would be a watershed moment for interaction design. I feel like the general public would finally understand the idea that having lots of features is not what they want. I’m still shocked that none of the phone companies has stepped up and been bold enough to do it.

I really do think this is true. All of the cell phone companies are running around with their heads cut off not giving anyone what they really need.

There’s a reason my mom faithfully sticks to her old Motorola StarTac.

01:06 PM | 4 Comments

Comments

  1. The market could DEFINATELY use a simple phone, you and your friends should design one :) I remember reading something that showed pictures of some phone with not display screen whatsoever and just digits. I thought it was a pretty good idea as the phones were cheap to manufacture, worked well, and could be sold cheaply as well. They were mainly purchased by… surprise surprise the elderly! While I don’t know that I’d go far enough to ditch the screen as I think even the elderly would find the phone book feature handy… the rest is all just for the most part worthless fluff.

    Dustin on

  2. Crap I’m braindead today… Sorry about the typos and not giving more info. This was done in Japan I should have mentioned that. Tim Rogers wrote about it on Large Prime Numbers but I can’t find the post where he blabbed about it.

    As for discussing IT stuff BTW… I’m up for it whenever just IM me sometime.

    Dustin on

  3. Hiya Grant! How’s life treatin ya? And what’s up with u busting the “vous” out on me? lol sheesh after knowing u since elementary school i get a “vous”? lol j/p I’ll save ur new blog site ;) take care and ttyl!

    Rima on

  4. I do remember reading that comment on SVN, and I believe you are right. Cellphone UI sucks and that’s the reason I have never bought one.

    Jamie Fehr on
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