I don’t get it.  We’ve had big monitors for the better part of 10 years now and resolutions have steadily increased over time.  People, we’re not all running 640 x 480 anymore!  I just bought a Logitech Harmony 700 universal remote.  I love the remote.  Super comfortable, great button layout but their software really isn’t that intuitive to use.  And whoever designed the interface really fell short.

Here’s the screen to customize the buttons on the remote:

You can see there’s a scrollbar on the right hand side to show more buttons when you scroll down.  The dialog above doesn’t take up even half my laptop screen so the first thing I did was expand the dialog to fill the height of the screen.  What do you think happened?  Did the controls resize properly?  Oh no…

You get this:

A nice big black box at the bottom of the dialog.  It looks like crap.  Having written loads of software that resizes/re-positions controls on the fly, I know that it doesn’t take that much effort to do it properly.  They would be better off fixing the size of the dialog and not allowing it to be resized.  But that would be just as frustrating…

I wish companies would put more thinking/designing into their interfaces.