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Originally Posted by Robertb
Are there concepts that can delineate an eBook Reader as better for the female? Perhaps smaller buttons for smaller fingers? I really do not know. SO... as this is a forum I am inviting some discussion.
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Okay Robert, here's my 2 cents.
Please don't make the buttons any smaller! Don't even think it! Put it in the same silly category as making stuff pink by default to sell to a girl. Not all of us girls/women are built that way! I inherited very wide thick fingers from my Dad's family. My brother's high school ring was smaller than mine - he has Mom's slender hands. I shop for electronics with bigger buttons just like my husband and for the same reason.
A sleek, clean, and elegant look will get you everywhere. A friend bought an HP laptop about 6 months ago and it is beautiful to me - the outside shell is shiny black with a geometric design done in thin lines of jewel tone colors. It is a very quiet understated pattern until the light hits it just right and then it turn vibrant and wow is it pretty. The pattern also helps hide fingerprints.
Good fit & finish also sets things apart. For example, if you look at a new $25K car and a $50K car you will see what I mean by that. Do the seams for the plastic panels around the radio & air vents line up really well? Or is there a big visable crack to allow dust & crud that I will have to clean to keep the car looking good? I always look at those little details when making my choices. If it looks cheap it's harder to remember that what's inside is really good stuff. "Cheap" doesn't always mean garrish and too much glitter. Sometimes it is literal. Does it look like cheap plastic or tin, or like the several hundred dollar electronics item it is?
And keep the whole thing simple in its basic functionality, but have menus and options so the more intricate functions are there if/when I want them. Accessible menus are very good. I like buttons, but would rather a just few I can customize rather than deal with learning which ones not touch because they don't do anything I find useful - that is just annoying. It also goes back to the "clean" look I mentioned earlier. Too many buttons gets busy and can look really geeky. I want to read, not type. This is not a netbook!