Useable Product - Digital Voice Recorder

Digital voice recorder - Olympus VN-2100PC Digital Voice Recorder - present for my dad.

• Easy to use for 'technophobes' - simple button interface
• Hooks up to pc with usb, records mp3s (small file sizes),
• four different audio quality settings,
• built in mic but you can also plug in your own (for better audio quality),
• Large LCD screen,
• can arrange audio files into folders,
• integrated speaker
• pocket size
• slow playback mode (facilitates typing transcripts)

What is Design?

Elements of design (multimedia slant):

Usability
Usefulness
Creativity
Layout
Language
Navigation
Creativity

Design is evolving..

Quoted: Design is "being good not just looking good"

uncluttered, simple to use, clarity

text
should stand out and be easily read e.g. if overlaying an image

navigation
navigation elements should have sufficient 'whitespace'