New York Times columnist David Pogue takes aim at technology’s worst interface-design offenders, and provides encouraging examples of products that get it right. To funny things up, he bursts into song.

He’s highlighting the decline of some manufacturers commitment to user-friendly software. There are vendors that release complicated software to run under Microsoft’s products, and while they are to blame some for the lack of intuitiveness, Microsoft created this user-not-so-friendly foundation..

Calling for simplicity in design is easy. But what appears to be simple from the designer’s perspective may be anything but from the perspective of the player.

About David Pogue: David Pogue is the personal technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy Award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News. He’s also one of the world’s bestselling how-to authors,