Comments on: How sleeping through my phone alarm taught me a lesson in software usability

By: jfrankel

jfrankel — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:45:23 +0000

@Kool If it was a one time “quickalarm” idea I could see this working. One major problem is that these phones are setup to handle reoccurring alarms and couldn’t handle going off on whichever 7 o clock is next.

By: KoolRaaga

KoolRaaga — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:19:03 +0000

Why not implement the functionality irrespective of AM or PM, the Alarm goes off ?

That would be easier on the UI.

By: David Knauer

David Knauer — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:33:04 +0000

K.I.S.S. Software “updates” often increase confusion. Don’t try to be all things to all people.

By: jfrankel

jfrankel — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:07:15 +0000

@Dmitry and Dave

I tried the 24hr clock for a while but I was always doing the conversion in my head. For someone with poor math skills, this poses a problem when half asleep.

By: Dave Aronson

Dave Aronson — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:33:46 +0000

Another thing that might help is to ditch the silly AM/PM nonsense. Yeah, right, just after the US goes metric….

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:45:07 +0000

Nice post. This is why I prefer the 24 hour clock