Toys Imitate Nature, Nature Fights Back...
A radio-controlled dragonfly sounds like fun, right? (Well, it sure does to me, but I've always been a sucker for toys.) But to a hawk, something that looks, acts, and flies like a real airborne insect just looks tasty. In fact, Gizmodo reports that after investigating the article at left, the company that makes the RC bug reveals that it's received 45 complaints of similar incidents. The usability lesson is that designers should be aware of the ecosystem (in this case, literally) into which they're designing - a different look or motion for the toy may have largely eliminated this problem. In the meantime, it's a lose/lose/lose situation: a dead toy, a sad boy, and what I'm sure is a very ticked-off bird of prey.
2 comments:
Oh come on, how awesome is that, to say that a hawk snatched your toy right out of the air?! That's soooo cool, I would buy that thing and fly it near a hawk just to see if it would happen! Well, no I wouldn't because that would be mean to the hawk, but still - cool!!
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