A Controller for Women.text

A Controller for Women

LINK: https://gigaom.com/2013/11/05/xbox-ones-design-blending-in-with-the-living-room-and-microsoft-tech/2/

Xbox Hardware Lead Carl Ledbetter, on designing a better controller for smaller hands.
From 02:43 in the transcript:

> It turns out that almost 40% of people who use
> Xbox today are women. And our challenge
> was, how do we make the controller fit into a
> wider range of hand sizes? So we have as part
> of our design team, ergonomous [*sic*] and user
> researchers, and we put a lot of effort into
> studying the controller; we built almost 200
> models of the shape to see how it’d fit into
> people’s hands.