{"id":18,"date":"2006-01-20T07:24:25","date_gmt":"2006-01-19T23:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=18"},"modified":"2006-01-20T07:24:25","modified_gmt":"2006-01-19T23:24:25","slug":"thermometer-that-projects-temperature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Thermometer that projects temperature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Designing new products that incorporate a high degree of usability is always problematic.  Inevitably feature creep invades the design, and you end up with the VCR &#8211; a product that 90% of the population simply uses to record and view programmes.  They never use the myriad of other features because the usability has not been factored into the product design.<\/p>\n<p>The same design philosophy is seeping into DVD recorders &#8211; engineers packing a product with features that will never be used.<\/p>\n<p>At the risk of sounding cliche, Apple is one company that bucks the trend by taking the complexity out of potentially complex products.<\/p>\n<p>In a different sphere altogether is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gro-group.co.uk\/brands\/grobag\/range\/egg\/\">grobag egg<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gro-group.co.uk\/_res\/396.jpg\" alt=\"grobag egg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a digital thermometer designed for baby rooms which glows different colours depending on the temperature &#8211; from blue for cold through to red for hot (with two more gradients on the way).<\/p>\n<p>Products with interfaces which are understood at-a-glance have a significantly better chance of success in the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designing new products that incorporate a high degree of usability is always problematic. Inevitably feature creep invades the design, and you end up with the VCR &#8211; a product that 90% of the population simply uses to record and view programmes. They never use the myriad of other features because the usability has not been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}