Postal Presents.

My idea behind this design was to try and have a product that would keep together the TV, DVD, Radio and any otehr remotes. I found that we constantly loose our remotes, finding them in the strangest places and often under the couch. To have some saught of container to keep the remote in would help encourage the user to place the remote back in a certain place and limit the chances of loosing the remote.

After a number of tests, it was easiest to make the product out of Polypro, and use snap lock buttons to hold the polypro together and give it some strength and rigidity.

Bad Design.

For my bad design review I have chosen a programable TV remote. The confusing part about the remote that I found whilst using it, is that, at the bottom right hand corner there is a button with a red circle on it. I initally, assumed that this was the power button. Although as it turns out it is the record button. After pressing the button for a while trying to get it to work, I just started pressing all the buttons to see which button turned on the TV.
At the top of the control there is a range of different buttons for different applications. There is a TV, Light, Radio, DTV, DVD, and CD button. to turn on any of these applications u need to simply press the appropriate button. So to turn on foxtel, you press the DTV button. For nortmal TV you press the TV button. I found this a little misleading and confusing when first using the remote.
Solution: Having the record button located with the other DVD controls in the middle of the remote, along with the fast foward, etc, buttons will help to hint to the user that it is the record button. Where it is currently located, along side the volume button, makes the user think that it is infact the power button.