Comments on: Usability Poor For Clock With No Time At All http://www.formfunctionemotion.net/archives/2007/01/15/usability-poor-for-clock-with-no-time-at-all.html Usability, design and customer experience Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:39:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Rachel http://www.formfunctionemotion.net/archives/2007/01/15/usability-poor-for-clock-with-no-time-at-all.html#comment-7130 Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:25:23 +0000 http://www.formfunctionemotion.net/archives/2007/01/15/usability-poor-for-clock-with-no-time-at-all.html#comment-7130 I have a very smart but very dumb alarm clock. It is radio-controlled, tells the exact time anywhere in the world. but You can't see it in the dark, and it has a light you can turn on that doesn't stay on long enough. The process of setting the alarm is so tortuous that the light times out midway through. So I have to remember before I turn out the light to check I've set the alarm at the time I want to get up the next day. If I don't, and remember later, I have to get up, turn the light on and then change the alarm. It also has a slim and elegant design which means that when the alarm goes off and I sleepily paw at the snooze button, the whole thing falls over and the batteries fall out and roll under the bed. I have a very smart but very dumb alarm clock. It is radio-controlled, tells the exact time anywhere in the world.

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You can’t see it in the dark, and it has a light you can turn on that doesn’t stay on long enough. The process of setting the alarm is so tortuous that the light times out midway through.

So I have to remember before I turn out the light to check I’ve set the alarm at the time I want to get up the next day. If I don’t, and remember later, I have to get up, turn the light on and then change the alarm.

It also has a slim and elegant design which means that when the alarm goes off and I sleepily paw at the snooze button, the whole thing falls over and the batteries fall out and roll under the bed.

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