Attention Product designers.
Apr. 3rd, 2007 02:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kengrWhen you atre designing a battery-powered handheld device such as a remote or a walkie-talkie, part of your testing should include dropping it, knocking it off a table, etc. Repeatedly.
You see, batteries are *heavy*. And repeated drops will show you that your battery compartment door will fail on about the fourth drop. Requiring (at best) large amounts of tape to hold in the batteries, or at worst replacement of the device.
No love
PS, designing the PCI Ex16 connector so that it looks like an AGP connector that's just a hair out of line wasn't bright either...
A consumer
You see, batteries are *heavy*. And repeated drops will show you that your battery compartment door will fail on about the fourth drop. Requiring (at best) large amounts of tape to hold in the batteries, or at worst replacement of the device.
No love
PS, designing the PCI Ex16 connector so that it looks like an AGP connector that's just a hair out of line wasn't bright either...
A consumer
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Date: 2007-04-04 08:57 am (UTC)