Today I was reading Engadget like I normally do in the morning to check out all the latest gadgets that they scour the internet for. And I happened across this new keyboard design that Dell is releasing with their Vostro models in the UK. I don’t know about you, but I specifically stay clear of keyboards where the backspace key is crunched down to add the backslash key on the top row. But I have never seen this keyboard layout before, where the backslash key is on the bottom left of the keyboard. I think the usability engineer that designed this keyboard should be fired, that is assuming that Dell didn’t randomly toss keys at the keyboard and let them stay where they fell.

This design has to be experienced because me describing it doesn’t do it justice for how bad of a design it is.

US Version

UK Version

Somebody may want to mention this blunder on Dell Idea Storm.

Tags: Bad Design, Dell, Useability

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