planetary paul

I have just purchased a similar scanner, the IRIScan Anywhere 5 from IRIS, a Canon subsidiary (which made me choose it): https://www.irislink.com/EN-BE/c1698/IRIScan-Anywhere-5---IRIScan-Anywhere-5-Wifi---Cordless-Scanner.aspx I was amazed how fast it scans, even at 1200 DPI, at least as fast as the big copier/scanner at work. I need it for scanning 50y old stencils, which are a bit wider than A4 and some 2" longer. It will simply scan until the paper runs out, so length doesn't matter. This means I don't need to scan A3 for stencils. This scanner is a bit cheaper than the Doxie, I got it for 2/3rd the price in a promotion sale. It comes with its own software, but you can use any OCR app with it as you let the scanner produce standard image files. They have a book version of this with which you move the scanner over the page by hand.

Soli said:

sumergo said:

Hardware, Hardware, Hardware - all engineering physical form, no concept of usability/UX function.

Sir Jony Ive is a brilliant industrial designer but he has never had a clue about what it takes to make his "wonderful" objects usable for humans.

Don't listen to me - check out another authority: https://www.fastcompany.com/3053406/how-apple-is-giving-design-a-bad-name

How I about I don't listen to either of you?

How about actually reading the article and then enlighten all of us with a solid point-by-point rebuttal?

sumergo said:

check out another authority: https://www.fastcompany.com/3053406/how-apple-is-giving-design-a-bad-name

This article is a seminal critique and it will be used as landmark educational material for many, many generations to come.

I love Ive's hardware designs, but his UI efforts not so much. I think his interface design is pretty worthless, a classic in form over function. That has been straightened out a bit in iOS. But the tendency to make everything as meaningless grey as possible in Finder windows so that you can no longer recognize the icons at a glance and have to read the accompanying text, is in my opinion idiotic. I hope Apple will correct that too.

I think Ive's hardware designs are superior, but it has already been said, if you have found a perfect design for a class of machines (think iMac) then there is not much to change about that. Even the iMac Pro looks the same, even though it is very different on the inside. The latest cheese grater model is another step forward, driven by temperature management. On the other hand, I think Ive’s interface design is pretty worthless, a classic in form over function. That has been straightened out a bit in iOS. But the tendency to make everything as meaningless grey as possible in the Finder so that you can no longer recognize the icons at a glance and have to read the accompanying text, is in my opinion idiotic. Anyway, we'll see if something is going to change; I certainly do not expect that in the short term.