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Why are phones no longer ergonomic industrial design?
So I was just sitting here getting a cramp in my hand because I’ve been doom-scrolling for too long, with my fingers brushing against a slight crack in the back glass and the rough, dented aluminum that’s just sharp enough that it might actually scratch me. And it hit me: this glass block makes no sense as a tool.
I get that the interface creates certain limitations, but I don’t see a single phone company even trying to make a phone that’s more comfortable to hold or more user-friendly physically. Not the software, but the hardware.
Going back in my life, I think of things like the Sony Walkman. When other companies started making portable music players, Sony upped their game and built the Sports Walkman: easier to hold, weather-resistant, designed with an actual human hand in mind. They innovated to regain market share.
Phone companies? They seem perfectly happy releasing a less comfortable, less durable device every year. And when I say less durable, I don’t mean planed obsolescence where you’ll “just buy a new one.” Most of us keep our chipped, cracked, scratched phones for the same amount of time we’d keep a pristine one anyway.
Anything that would make the phone practical (like being grippy, shock-absorbing, shaped for a hand) is outsourced to accessory companies that the phone manufacturers don’t even profit from.
So why is it that none of the major phone makers will build a thicker, silicone-based phone that doesn’t need a case and actually feels comfortable to hold all day?
#art
https://www.reddit.com/r/Design/comments/1ovsw57/why_are_phones_no_longer_ergonomic_industrial/
So I was just sitting here getting a cramp in my hand because I’ve been doom-scrolling for too long, with my fingers brushing against a slight crack in the back glass and the rough, dented aluminum that’s just sharp enough that it might actually scratch me. And it hit me: this glass block makes no sense as a tool.
I get that the interface creates certain limitations, but I don’t see a single phone company even trying to make a phone that’s more comfortable to hold or more user-friendly physically. Not the software, but the hardware.
Going back in my life, I think of things like the Sony Walkman. When other companies started making portable music players, Sony upped their game and built the Sports Walkman: easier to hold, weather-resistant, designed with an actual human hand in mind. They innovated to regain market share.
Phone companies? They seem perfectly happy releasing a less comfortable, less durable device every year. And when I say less durable, I don’t mean planed obsolescence where you’ll “just buy a new one.” Most of us keep our chipped, cracked, scratched phones for the same amount of time we’d keep a pristine one anyway.
Anything that would make the phone practical (like being grippy, shock-absorbing, shaped for a hand) is outsourced to accessory companies that the phone manufacturers don’t even profit from.
So why is it that none of the major phone makers will build a thicker, silicone-based phone that doesn’t need a case and actually feels comfortable to hold all day?
#art
https://www.reddit.com/r/Design/comments/1ovsw57/why_are_phones_no_longer_ergonomic_industrial/
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