The PVRBlog Interview: Ten Questions with TiVo's Director of User Experience, Margret Schmidt | PVRblog

Haughey interviews TiVo's Interface honcho: The PVRBlog Interview: Ten Questions with TiVo's Director of User Experience, Margret Schmidt:

[On changing the behavior of buttons on the remote] ...we try to design for the future (where we want to eventually take the feature) and then pare it down to what we are going to ship in a particular release.  This lets us show how the experience will naturally evolve rather than having to radically change it to accommodate future functionality.  We try to add to the experience rather than change it or take away something users rely on.