Imaginary laptops, as designed by 8-year-olds

[nickb]

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/the_laptop_club/

[far33d]

Almost every one has a "games" button. Many had "friends" as a button. Ignoring these trends if you are designing for kids seems like a huge mistake.

[Zak]

They seem to like having a button on the keyboard for everything, which leads me to believe all the major PC manufacturers hired a bunch of 8-year-olds to help them design computers from about 1998-2002.

[tjpick → Zak]

Not everything. Just everything that is important. Most of buttons are to help them with things that are fun, not to automate tedious or hard tasks. I could only spot one computer that had a "homework" button.

Good article.