| it's all over the place. when you hold a pen or pencil in your right hand, any text is right-side up. put it in your left hand; the text is now upside down. there are millions of little things like that. millions. right-handed people will never ever notice them. left-handed people can not avoid noticing them. pens & pencils notebooks. IP phones. headsets (they have the mic on the left so you can scratch your face with your right hand without bumping the microphone.) monitors (controls are on the back, right-hand side) keyboards mice AND THIS IS JUST THE THINGS THAT ARE PRESENT ON MY DESK RIGHT NOW. badge readers are always on the right-hand side of a door. power buttons are always on the right, even on remote controls. etc., etc., etc. everything that is asymmetrical in any way is biased for right-handed people around 99.99% of the time. I occasionally get something from China which has accidental bias for left, but those things also have no obvious thought to the usability of anything at all. it is maddening seeing this all day every day everywhere you go. "you are not like us" is all I get out of it and it just chips away at me with a microscopic chisel. |