By Sarah Sien
I absolutely love my alarm clock I have had for years. Affordance is very clear and obvious. No menu reading is necessary and it causes no confusion at all. The “light snooze” button, big enough, is located at the very top and all I have to do is to tap it lightly when it rings. After I hit the snooze button, it will stop ringing for a minute and ring again until I turn the switch to “off” at the side of the clock. It’s perfect because it gives me another minute of sleep and yet it avoid me from sleeping in when it just keeps ringing no matter how many times I shut the noise out. Auditory feedback is perfect, it’s loud enough to wake me up but quiet enough to not disturb others in the house. Mapping is very simple and clear and I don’t even need a second to figure it out. I love the visibility of this clock; it’s elegant looking. The numbers are big enough and are glow-in-the-dark. The two tiny built-in light bulbs at either side are very useful when I woke up in the middle of the night. There is a second hand and it assures me that the clock is not out of battery when it is moving. However, there is one thing that sometimes troubles me. It is hard to identify the minute hand from the hour hand when I am half asleep. Even though they are glow-in-the-dark, but I wish the hour hand could be a little shorter than it is now. Psychological constraint (convention) is clear where the hour hand is shorter than the minute hand, second and is the thinnest and longest.
I hate my Motorola Razor V3 cell phone. I like the appearance of it being thin and slim and it fits easily into my pockets. However, I hate the way it brings me attention when it comes to using the camera. The auditory feedback is extremely loud when I am trying to sneak a photo at someone or something. There is no way I can turn it off and every time I take a picture with it, this loud clicking noise would embarrass me by bringing hundred pairs of staring eyes. Also, when it is experiencing low battery, it just keep beeping every few minutes and I have to either turn the phone off or turn the ring tone to silent. But if it’s on silent, there is no way I can tell when someone is calling me. It uses the same beeping sound when I missed a call as well as when it is low battery. The beeping sound really bothers me especially when most of those Motorola cell phones out there use the same tone. Whenever it beeps, I have to check my phone, and 90% of the time it’s someone else phone and I don’t get why they just let it beep like that every few minutes for a couple of hours. The context sensitivity is badly organized; the category name does not help much and I have to go through each name to look for the function I need. Mapping is not clear at all; there are no labels or symbols and it took me a while to figure out and get used to it. However, there are these buttons at the sides that I still have no idea what they are for and some I just keep getting them mixed up when they all look the identical.
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