Sunday, December 18, 2011

Thing #66: Cell Phone User Guide

Thing #66: Cell Phone User Guide

This manual was 214 pages. I don't recall ever opening the booklet until just now (in order to check the page count), and yet somehow I was able to successfully operate the phone until the screen finally went out after about two years of regular usage.

I'm about halfway through a book called The Design of Everyday Things, and to keep it short (since I don't want to write a whole lot about a book I haven't finished): the fact that I never needed to read the manual is pretty compelling evidence that the SGH-t629 was a well-designed device. Nice work, anonymous Samsung designer(s).

2 comments:

  1. looks a little racy for a phone manual

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  2. I'm assuming that's a portrait of the engineer who designed the phone. Maybe her office is unusually warm?

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