[IxDA Discuss] more new desktop IxD

[Matt Theakston]

jacob nielsons comment "outright reckless" is interesting regarding the
research and user testing. It makes me think of the parallel with the
motofone. I had listened to richard schatzberger talk about the amount
of research for motofone at the world usability day here in chicago last
year. seems to me that designing a device for developing countries would
require more testing and research than usual. Seems a little scary a load of
MIT people making assumptions about young kids needs in distant countries,
but perhaps more research was completed than described in that article(or
maybe not). A brave bit of work nonetheless though.

i'm new posting by the way, although have been reading the discussions for a
little while! So hello all.

Matt


On 3/1/07, pauric <radiorental at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Not your ordinary desktop."
>
> I'm sure thats a slip, but its not a 'desktop' interface.  Its a focused
> ACD
> design.  Do one thing and do it well - so barring any glaring
> design-by-committee no-no's it should be more user friendly than a tub of
> ben and jerrys.
>
> However, read somewhere today that some countries, who are rightly
> concerned
> about theft-blackmarket, have got the design changed so it will disable
> itself in some circumstances.  Firstly the device must be registered over
> the net within a period, then if reported stolen it gets disabled from a
> central server.
>
> While this is all well and good it falls in to design flaw of not trusting
> the user, you're guilty until you prove yourself innocent.  And, with a
> lot
> of the target countries having less than stellar access to the net I think
> there are going to be a lot of peeved kiddies with green/white bricks.
> Also, I have to question the possible disconnect between the bureaucrats
> who
> requested this feature and the capabilities of these countries to manually
> administer lists of stolen serial numbers and then broadcast licensing
> flags.
>
> fwiw there are no current plans to sell this in western markets.
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