Per our assignment, here is my everyday thing with a design flaw(s)!
Laptops.
Affordances: The affordance of laptops is to take it everywhere and use it anywhere.... giving us a sense of freedom and the ability to be out there, away from the office.
However this is not the case, the majority of laptops are fragile, and by their design and material, not meant to take the everyday beating that they receive.
-The power cord and connector are usually designed in an L-shape or straight in I-shape ready to yank out the power connector from the laptop in case you stand up and move across the room while still attached or if some one walks by and trips on it.
-By puttin your Laptop on your... "Lap" the only way to prevent your laptop from hitting the ground is by puttin rigid pressure with your fingers! Yet, most of us still do it.
Constraints:
-Power, if you are away from any wall, you are being timed. Yep, on average a notebook will last you 2-3 hours of actual normal use. 4-6 hours if you don't touch it and let sit there.
-Caring for it like new born baby all the time.
Feedback: The only feedback you get is, after you have dropped it, spilled coffee on it, the laptop won't start or give off an annoying beeee-p.
Protecting my laptop or treating it like a baby is probably not the best way to describe how to care for one. My last two laptops (PowerBook, Dell Vostro) suffered from the two flaws above and as it were, they were the main reasons both are R.I.P now. Some one yanked the power connector off my PowerBook when they tripped on it in a classroom and the other just slipped out from my "Lap" down to the cement. Ouch! said my wallet.
1 comments:
Gosh, Jonathan, maybe we should all just bring in our laptops. I totally agree with yr assessment, but have I got more..
1. My laptop is shiny, every fingerprint and smudge shows up on it. Every shmutz! The screen always looks awful.
2. I've got this thing on the mouse pad that allows me to scroll via the mouse pad. sometimes it works, sometimes not. usually it works when I'm playing a game with the mouse and suddently the screen scrolls away.
3. Hate those damn power cords (my cat likes to chew mine...) and I went through about 5 of 'em on my dell, they got too hot and died.
4. And the lap thing...they get too hot on yr lap, even if you hold them up on one end. how helpful is that? I use my as a heater, since my house is so cold.
Enough kvetching. Thanks for the post, you helped me figure out what to bring in to tomorrow's class...
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