Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Pod Coffee Makers (21 Mar 2006) So, overall, I think the pod machines are a great advancement in coffee-making. As is usual with early technology, the different brands use proprietary pods, so they are not interchangeable. And some make far better coffee than others. But the coffee is not bad. In fact, it is superior to the average coffee in restaurants and homes. (Then again, it is not excellent either, inferior to that of the better coffee houses and the home where people take the time to grind and brew the coffee. See the reviews, below.) When assessing simplicity, don't get all hung up on the number of buttons. Look at the whole picture: more is sometimes less. The pod coffee makers are a huge improvement in ease of learning, ease of use, and ease of maintenance over traditional methods. When their coffee-making abilities get better -- and they will -- they will be the coffee maker of choice. Add this article to Del.icio.us Article URL: http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/pod_coffee_makers.html Read 89 more articles from Don Norman sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Search engine optimization basics, Part 3: Get your Web pages into search indexes          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy

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