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Ergonomics 101: A Touchscreen MacBook Is Still A Terrible Idea
15 years on Steve Jobs is still correct.
Good morning, Class. Your regular professor is away this week on business and she asked me to take this week’s Product Design lecture. My name is Carl and I’ve been a design educator for over 20 years*. Today we’re doing a session on classical ergonomics. Please save your questions to the end.
I can see more than a few MacBooks in the audience today. Good, let’s start from there. How many of you use Apple products of any sort? Anything at all, don’t be shy. I can see a lot of hands! Excellent. If you’re not an Apple nerd like I am it might have escaped your attention but this week they announced some new MacBook Pro models. Yes, they still put the power of a demigod at you fingertips but they also integrated a touchscreen into the high-end models for the first time.
You can see here that all the ports are present and correct and mature students in the auditorium might be happy to note they brought back the glowing Apple logo on the exterior of the lid too. What is perhaps most interesting is that they kept the exact same hinge mechanism which as any good…
