{"id":485,"date":"2010-12-05T10:41:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T15:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ideasillustrated.com\/blog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2010-12-05T10:41:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T15:41:54","slug":"great-tv-remote-mods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideasillustrated.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/05\/great-tv-remote-mods\/","title":{"rendered":"Great TV Remote Mods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electronics manufacturers still don&#8217;t seem understand how to design easy-to-use controls for their devices. This is particularly true for the thousands of TV\/cable box combinations that exist in our homes. While we wait patiently for some specialty company to meet this need, check out\u00a0this arts-and-crafts modification I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designinginteractions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">online<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ideasillustrated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/TV-remote-hack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-486\" title=\"TV remote hack\" src=\"https:\/\/ideasillustrated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/TV-remote-hack-285x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>What I don&#8217;t understand is why companies don&#8217;t simplify their remotes and move to a screen-based menu system. The iPod gets away with only a few buttons and a very basic hierarchy of choices. Seems like a good business niche to me. Of course, you-know-who has already entered the arena with their Apple TV:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ideasillustrated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/apple-tv-remote.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-491\" title=\"apple-tv-remote\" src=\"https:\/\/ideasillustrated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/apple-tv-remote-265x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is pretty basic design &#8212; almost like it is a working prototype of the cardboard cutout version above. I like this approach because shifts burden of design away from the physical object to the software under the hood. Anybody else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronics manufacturers still don&#8217;t seem understand how to design easy-to-use controls for their devices. This is particularly true for the thousands of TV\/cable box combinations that exist in our homes. While we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[57,60,93,106],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","tag-hack","tag-industrial-design","tag-simplicity","tag-tv-remote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasillustrated.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasillustrated.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasillustrated.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasillustrated.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasillustrated.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ideasillustrated.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasillustrated.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasillustrated.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasillustrated.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}