This morning I had to go and buy a scanner. To start with there wasn’t a great choice at my local store Scan (A real choice for Brands… Your only choice for Service – their words, not mine. Agreed. Apart from scanners). HP or Canon. I went for the Canon. Mainly because it came in black and it only had a few stickers on (EnergyStar and LIDE). What is it about the non-Mac world that they feel they have to slap stickers on everything. It’s always struck me about PC laptops – the almost total wallpapering with shiny Windows -this and Intel-that stickers all over the poor case. This is why. (It’s old but it’s true).
So the scanner is not bad. It does it’s job pretty well. But the software. Oh dear. Apart from the fact that it seemed so clunky compared to all the apps I use on a day to day basis I was just left with a general feeling of despair.
Why did the designers feel that they should make users learn a new interface language? Ok, maybe I’m being a bit harsh – it’s not as bad as the wild-west of PC app design. But still… come on Canon, stick to the script.
