Awesome example. My Motorola Q is enormous in comparison to a lot of other phones, but the keyboard is big. And my thumbs are big. So it all works out for me, despite the fact that it doesn’t really fit too well in my pocket.

The “design for real people” reminded me… I read something in WIRED a couple of years ago that I never forgot. Someone was saying that people always tend to think that smaller is better in technology, but while mobile phones get smaller (as the buttons on them do) and smaller, people’s hands still stay the same size.

Seth - Yeah, per the above: size, shape and location are all huge issues if you really want people to search. But first things first, you have to offer a worthwhile search function… too many searches are poorly built and just plain don’t work. It’s taken Google years to perfect search, and they’re always working on it.

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