Guide to adoption of technology, part 2

This is the second of a multi-part series in a guide to the adoption of technology into one’s personal life. This is not a guide to the latest gadgets, but a guide for you, the consumer, as a window into your own behavior when considering the technology you wish to adopt.

Click here for part 1 of this series

As mentioned in the first column, in 1955’s “Designing for People” Henry Dreyfuss offered five points by which products could be designed and developed: Utility and Safety; Maintenance; Cost; Sales and Appeal; and Appearance.

What Dreyfuss may not have known is…