The typical car visor affords for shading and blocking bright sunlight from a driver's eyes. The mapping relationship involved in it's use is relatively easy: pull down for shade, lift up when shading is not needed. The constraints of the visor are fairly limited, also. You can easily tell that there are only a few actions you can do with a visor and what the results would be from those actions (up, down, side to side). There are, however, some design flaws in this everyday item.
How often have you pulled your car visor down to provide shade from the sun only to have to lift it back up again when you reach a signal light set above your line of vision and blocked by the visor? Or how about having to dangerously swing the visor around to the side window to shield sunlight coming in from another direction, at the same time dodging it from hitting your head, and all the while trying to keep your steering wheel straight? This device is easy enough to use, but it could definitely be improved upon.
1 comment:
Rowena --
An interesting design assessment of an everyday object. It is refreshing to see how well the principles we apply to website design can work for anything.
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