Trent W. Buck wrote:
Rohan McLeod wrote:
Related to the benefits of REDUCTION of choice in infrastructure and public services; I some times wonder whether consumers wouldn't also be better off; if the choice of much design novelty; which is little more than "different from last month"; was constrained by some functional interface standards. Are you suggesting legislation that requires products to follow a HIG? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_interface_guidelines
Good luck with that.
Trent ; thanks for the that link; yes legislation might be a bit of an ask. Though philosophically I consider the economic ideology of ' laissez faire'; to be little better than economic fatalism; to even get the basic functionality of a competitive free-market requires enforced anti-monopoly, anti-collusion legislation! Perhaps the Australian Standards Organisation ; could have recommended HIG standards, which importers/ manufacturers; might advertise as features ? Couldn't seem to see any sign of this though with : http://www.standards.org.au/search/results.aspx?k=%22Human%20interface%20gui... regards Rohan McLeod