Digital Watch

There's was a lot of products that came to me when i was trying to think of something that didn't work just right, in fact just about every product is flawed in some way.  From experience I've found watches, mainly digital, but also multifunction analogue watches are notoriously hard to use.  A digital watch generally fits so many functions into itself but it also has extremely small space to fit buttons to control all these features.  A digital watch will generally have three or four buttons, these control all the different features of the watch as well as changing the date, time and alarm.  This is where most people come to grief, when i worked in a watch repair shop it was an almost daily ritual of someone coming in asking us to change the time, or how to set an alarm, they either couldn't read the functions on the buttons, there weren't any or they weren't even relevant, in some watches the light button is a main button in the setting process,.  Some were so hard we would sometimes have to hang on to it just to look up the instructions on the internet.

    I don't so much blame the people that designed the watches, they have an extremely limited space and,�if people want all these features then the buttons must be put on there somewhere.  Its just seems the case that unless you're willing to read and memorize (or keep handy) the instructions then you may as well just resign yourself to the fact that you're never going to properly be able to use your watch.

 

    Now, on a side note, i think this blog has a grudge against me, first it doesn't let me post pictures and now it won't let me comment, i'd ask if anyone else was having the same problem but if they were they wouldn't be able to let me know... so this blog would be up there with things that also, don't work too well.

Ross