WPS symbols should be shown on prompting to push the button

[japlytic]

http://youtu.be/K0-9QMRPEbE

Doing this would be of great help to consumers, considering the fact that not all wireless routers use the official "cycle" logo for this function, as used under Windows 7.

[mariushm]

Re: WPS symbols should be shown on prompting to push the button

Cluttering an interface with symbols won't make it easier for consumers, on the contrary.

It will just make the interface more scary and difficult. The majority of Windows users are non-technical so they don't even know what that "encryption" means and what the 3 letter shortname means. Ffs they'll tell you they use "The Internet" when you ask them what browser they use or they say their operating system is "Dell",

They barely understand the "signal" icon and that's simply because it looks close to the icon they have on their phones.

It's very easy to make assumptions but understand that Microsoft, Apple etc have teams of probably hundreds of people that do usability tests for every little thing in the operating system.

I really recommend you to read Raymon Chen's blog "The Old New Thing" - he's one of the guys that worked on Windows since the Windows 95 days and still works there. You can learn quite a lot from all kinds of tricks and decisions they had to use either because the computers were too slow or people were too dumb.

As a programmer/freelancer etc I had a lot of thoughts about why some things annoyed me or why they work like that but after reading his blog I really started to appreciate the complexity of some things.

Here's the blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/

You should start from the end and focus on the articles tagged "History" but lots of good insightful posts don't have tags so you'll miss a lot if you filter by tags: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/...?PageIndex=339

You'll thank me later.

Oh and unrelated... the videos are cool but you should really try to look at the camera when you're talking otherwise it makes the videos weird and the person watching focuses on you instead of your message.

Try using some transparent foil with your text over the camera's objective to write down the text or even a simple plain sheet of paper under it.

[mockingbird]

Re: WPS symbols should be shown on prompting to push the button

People actually use this?

[dumpystig]

Re: WPS symbols should be shown on prompting to push the button

Ffs they'll tell you they use "The Internet" when you ask them what browser they use or they say their operating system is "Dell"

HAHA brilliant! That would have been me a few years ago... but we all gota start somewhere