aamefford
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I probably shared the experience of changing two screened legends on a Sumo product and reducing customer inquiries by an order of magnitude (specially, changing the "Monitor" and "Input" knobs to "Record From" and "Listen To"), but I also did the Angstrom remote control. Which, of course, was delivered to us as a prototype containing the typical grid of same-size buttons, about 40 of them, if I remember correctly. Sensible crap like different sized buttons were out of the question). So what did I do? I looked at what functions an owner would most rely on--volume, input select, mode select--and prioritized them over everything else. I looked at where my thumb would fall when holding it. I considered that most home theaters would be dark, and we couldn't do backlit buttons, so I color-blocked the important buttons. Then I had them rip every other button off the faceplate, so that things were logically ordered. Simple. This really isn't difficult.
And this is what it looked like:
Art? No. Functional? Yes. Easy to use? Look at a Sony remote from that time.
Note: the Apple remote is a frigging wonder of manufacturing. Take a look at one sometime, and consider how it has to be made.
Amen!