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Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Is the System On or Off?


Walking into any video/audio conferencing room can be a nightmare. Picking the right cable, to connect to your laptop, turning on the TV monitor, enabling the laptop mode for presentation are things engineers do on a regular basis, yet are intimidated by the various technologies involved. 

Why not walk into a conference room, connect the laptop to the right cable, turn on the TV and we are good to go? I often wonder why such a simple task is horrendous to execute?

Folks at Extron have attempted to simplify it. They haven't succeeded completely though.


Can you tell if the system is ON or OFF? Does red color signify ON? 

Signifiers have to be clear enough for users, which in this case is not.




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