The bad design idea of the top ten digital products

According to foreign media reports, the current digital products a variety of designs are endless , a wide range of , and some successful market favored, some can only lead to the relentless abandonment of users, The following ten worst product designs will be presented below.

1. Superfluous interface Protection cover

Imagine, if you had a cover on the keyhole of your car door, what do you think of that? And why would you do that? The answer is obvious. If the product's users are army, field workers or outdoor explorers, then they will certainly want the product to be waterproof and dustproof design. However, if the user of the product is not such a group of people, then obviously there is absolutely no need to cover the microUSB or other interfaces, because this will only backfire.

In most cases, the lid should be removed, except for those interfaces that are rarely used, such as the SIM card interface.

2. Hard to find power button

If the user needs to spend more than 5 seconds to find a laptop or other device power button, then the design of this product is undoubtedly a failure. In the past, there were a lot of laptop power keys placed on the front end, which is not only inconvenient, but also when users use the intention to turn off the system. However, some manufacturers still do their own things. Motorola still puts the power button behind the droid's Xyboard 8.2 tablet computer, a lot of criticism, because the previous Xoom tablet was designed to be very inconvenient.

Here, give a suggestion to some big-screen smartphone makers: Consider placing the power button on the right rather than the top, so that the user does not need to elongate his or her finger to Shing.

3. Easy to leave fingerprint design

At present, tablets, laptops or smartphones leave a lot of fingerprints after a few minutes of use, and there's nothing worse. In general, the slick plastic shell is the culprit. If you use metal design, the situation may be better, but the overall difference is not small.

However, there is now an integrated plastic design, which is more exciting. This design not only protects against fingerprints, but also looks more modern. Nokia's Lumia 900 is a good example, and the Dell XPS 15 is good. When it comes to screens, those with oil-resistant coatings are designed to prevent fingerprints, and the ipad should continue to do better in this respect.

4. Key Dim

Smartphones that use a period of time to automatically disappear are very unpleasant, like the Sony Xperia Ion menu key and the return key experience is very bad, because its four silver buttons are not only very small, but also more obscure. Adding a background light to the back of the key doesn't work at all, and the best design is to let the buttons show themselves.

5. When the notebook computer is uncovered, it creaked.

When users use a notebook, the operation of uncovering and closing the display is very frequent, so it is necessary to make sure that the operation is smooth. Unfortunately, however, there are a lot of ultra-extreme ones that crunch when they are uncovered, and, worse, sometimes they touch the edges. HP Envy 4t and 6z two products all have this flaw.

6. Awkward camera Position

If the company's logo is placed at the bottom of the device, the user will be very eye-catching when used horizontally. However, it would be inconvenient to use the front camera on the left side of the manufacturer. Lenovo's IdeaPad S2109 tablet computer made this mistake. The designer of the product seems utterly incapable of making their own decisions, a design that looks awkward because Google's Android system has long been specifically optimized for horizontal use.

Love visual Archos 70b tablets have made the same mistake, but because it is only 7 inches in size, there are many times when users are using portrait mode, so it is understandable.

7. Charger volume is too large

This piece of design is considered irrelevant by many people. Laptop like a brick charger, once connected to the power, other devices will have no space to plug in. For example, Asus UX32VD has a rectangular charger plug that almost occupies all the jacks when plugged into a power supply board.

Worse, the laptop's power cord is too short, which means that when the battery is low enough, the user must be near the wall to use it. A large number of tablets and smartphones have short power cords. For example, when the ipad is charging and using, it is easy to disconnect the power cord when the user is not careful.

8. Poor position of speakers

The fact that laptop users actually do use them on their lap may surprise some manufacturers. While this is not particularly common, the speakers placed at the bottom of the device are masked if they are used in this way. If the speakers are thin enough, you can place them either above the laptop or under the keyboard.

At the same time, some tablet speakers are placed on the back edge, which is easily blocked by the user's fingers when used. The better design should be to place the speakers ahead, such as Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1.

9. Obsolete function key combinations

Many users of Windows laptops do not use the function keys. So, in the simple operation of adjusting volume or brightness, there is no need for the laptop manufacturer to allow users to use this annoying key combination. Apple gave up the design years ago, but some other computer makers are only now aware of the problem. HP and Dell have already placed buttons on some devices that can be operated directly, gaining wide acclaim from the industry. But product designs like Acer, Asus, Sony and Lenovo are still behind the times.

10. Imitation Metal shell

Some manufacturers want to control costs and to make the product look stylish, but when the product does not use the real metal shell, please do not fool consumers. For example, LG's customized Viper phone for Sprint's shell looks like a brushed metal, but it's actually just a layer of coating.

There are also many tablets and laptops that use this trick. Although some notebooks use metal on the surface of the shell, they use imitation metal materials. Although the slogan of the publicity is a unified aesthetic design, but a discerning eye is known to be false advertising.