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Sucky Canon Video Switch
Figure 1: Illustration of the current design.
Figure 2: Illustration of my changes to the design.
Two interaction designers (George Luc and myself), along with a handful of Indians, show us why the Camera-Video-Review switch sucks on what otherwise are great digital cameras.
In Figure 2, the video and camera modes are swapped and nubbins are added between the video and camera position. Swapping mode positions makes it more likely the user will switch to the camera mode accidentally, which is probably their intent. The nubbins assist this further by requiring additional effort to push the switch into the video position.
It is presumed these adjustments would require fewer changes to the engineering and manufacture of the camera.
© 2008 Nathan Verrill. 
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