{"id":990,"date":"2011-04-10T12:41:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T16:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtom.wordpress.com\/?p=990"},"modified":"2011-04-10T16:45:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T20:45:06","slug":"poor-button-placement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/poor-button-placement\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Button Placement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/nMDO9\" target=\"_blank\">Radmin<\/a> posted this rather unfortunate placement of a laptop&#8217;s power button.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1010\" title=\"0nMDO9\" src=\"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/0nMDO9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/0nMDO9.jpg 468w, http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/0nMDO9-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although this could be a lot worse, it still isn&#8217;t a good idea to put the power button so close to another button. I hit ESC often &#8211; like to close out of full-screen &#8211; and I don&#8217;t want to close anything let alone shut the computer off.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at a good example of power button placement, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macbookpro\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Macbook Pro<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Screen-shot-2011-04-10-at-12.37.33-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1011\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-10 at 12.37.33 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Screen-shot-2011-04-10-at-12.37.33-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Screen-shot-2011-04-10-at-12.37.33-PM.png 719w, http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Screen-shot-2011-04-10-at-12.37.33-PM-300x217.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I do understand that sometimes there isn&#8217;t always enough room to play around with, the designers should take care to be sure the power button isn&#8217;t hit accidentally. I know they usually have a time limit that you need to push the button before it actually takes action. Just keep this in mind when you&#8217;re searching for a new computer. This isn&#8217;t something that you usually take into account.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/what_kind_of_ahole_design_is_this_18757.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Core77<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radmin posted this rather unfortunate placement of a laptop&#8217;s power button. Although this could be a lot worse, it still isn&#8217;t a good idea to put the power button so close to another button. I hit ESC often &#8211; like to close out of full-screen &#8211; and I don&#8217;t want to close anything let alone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,8],"tags":[64,111],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}