Status update on our GET box.

Last night when my girlfriend was watching TV our GET box fucked up for the last time. So after a year with this crappy box she finally stuffed it in the trash along wit it’s button crowded remote. About time!

And now we finally have peace, just one remote and no slow and hard to use menus. And we still get TV signals even though the city were full of posters that told us that the old signals would go down last year?!?!

Stay put for a update on my Master project that has taken a new turn. Coming soon.

What do you think?

Today you have a wonderful opportunity to say what you feel about your TV remote controller.

I would be really happy if you would right down a list of the best and worst things with TV remotes.

 

You can do it in a comment or mail me at max.schroder@me.com

I’m looking forward to hear from you.

The remote controller experiment

The remote control is for me a mysterium. They often have so many buttons and functions that I get completely lost. It would be interesting to find out what other people think of this. Thats why I have started to make a user experiment.

Whit this experiment I want to find out if people would prefere manny buttons and functions, or a small amount of buttons and functions. Or perhaps something in between?

I’m still not sure about how this should be done, but I have an idea of masking all the buttons on a remote exept for the most important. (In varying degrees) This must be combined whit intervues and question forms before and after the masking of the remote.

This way of masking the remote controller have a problem, you often end up with an odd button placement. And what are the important buttons? Do you need symbols, text, both or nothing to communicate the different functions? This is just some of many unanswered questions.

If you have thoughts or ideas feel free to comment me, or maybe you would like to be part of the experiment when it´s ready?