Comments on: Call Your Hardware Vendor https://blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2009/07/22/call-your-hardware-vendo/ Clarify Today, Design Tomorrow Fri, 18 Aug 2017 18:01:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.1 By: Julian https://blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2009/07/22/call-your-hardware-vendo/#comment-514 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:33:04 +0000 http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/?p=3643#comment-514 In reply to Steve Portigal.

Yep, peculiar anachronisms that still live within the bottom strata of life’s application layers….

]]> By: Steve Portigal https://blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2009/07/22/call-your-hardware-vendo/#comment-513 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:36:23 +0000 http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/?p=3643#comment-513 For some reason I’m reminded of those stickers that are on the photocopier, the garage door control, the water heater, etc. with the name and contact info of the last repair person who serviced it. The information you need (who to call!) is right where you might start to look. Sure, the water heater is not the water faucet, but presumably your mental model sends you to the right point of failure where the sticker does its job.

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