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Advent ADR 560, an Example of User-Hostile Design

by tdaxp ~ November 25th, 2006

I’ve wasted a good portion of this day of Thanksgiving break on the awful, awful, awful Advent ADR 560 Universal Remote Control. Everything about it is poorly designed. The remote itself is cryptically labeled, the online PDF is designed so as to be nearly impossible to print, and the web designer seems to be actively hostile to human-computer interface concerns.

I wouldn’t give the death penalty to the CEO. Not quite that much.

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Sean
November 25th, 2006 at 12:00 am
hope that remote wasn't for you and you were working on it for family members or something…
Dan tdaxp
November 25th, 2006 at 12:00 am
'twas for Parents' of tdaxp television — but as I was watching it, the pressure was on me

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