When Dell Usability Engineering Goes Horribly Wrong

Today I was reading Engadget like I normally do in the morning to check out all the latest gadgets that they scour the internet for. And I happened across this new keyboard design that Dell is releasing with their Vostro models in the UK. I don’t know about you, but I specifically stay clear of keyboards where the backspace key is crunched down to add the backslash key on the top row. (This is my personal preference, apparently I have to point this out to some of the commentors, because it is not clear by saying “I specifically”) But I have never seen this keyboard layout before, where the backslash key is on the bottom left of the keyboard where the “Z” key is suppose to be. I think the usability engineer that designed this keyboard should be fired, that is assuming that Dell didn’t randomly toss keys at the keyboard and let them stay where they fell. ...

May 1, 2008 · 2 min · 293 words · Nick Berardi