ATMs and gas pumps are usable, but they make my brain hurt.
This picture tells the story perfectly:
http://www.cameronmoll.com/img/pics/gaspump1.jpg
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At 7:18 AM -0400 10/3/09, Arthur Fink wrote:
I've another problem with the icons often used on elevator buttons, which I
detailed in my new blog:
http://arthurfink.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/icons-that-wonÂ…t-least-for-me
That link doesn't work for me, Arthur. I suspect it's the special
Elevator Buttons...the number of times I've hit the wrong button in
Shanghai! In some of the better office buildings, you push the button
to select your floor, but if you make a mistake, then you push and
hold the button (for 1-2 seconds) to 'unselect' the floor! Simple!
But, not many elevators
i believe in dynamic products which have multiple touchpoints and
tactility is compatible/synchronized with interface to serve multiple
scenarios.
eventually everything connects as eames said.
1. elevator buttons are weird..aren't they? u have to push buttons
whenever u want to travel vertical:F
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:32 PM, dbr...@gridironsoftware.com wrote:
Oh, don't getme started! :)
. . .
4. T-shirts with irritating little tags that either a) annoy you by
itching/poking your neck or b) stick up out of the top of the t-shirt like a
tiny little I'm a dork flag.
Oh, but wait.
von
Catherine Ryan
Gesendet: Montag, 28. September 2009 06:16
An: disc...@ixda.org
Betreff: [IxDA Discuss] Unusable things
OK - so we work in the world of digital. Here the affordance is a
perceived one. But what about our real lives?
Here's the thing - I want to start a list of unusable real
Ah yes, the alarm button in the elevator. In our apartment building
elevator, it's the lowest button, so it's the first one that all
toddlers learn to push.
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1. Elevator buttons: when I press the wrong floor (which is quite
the frequent occasion in my uncaffienated state before 12pm) why
can't I unpress my mistake?
If I wanted to go to the 20th floor, and a bunch of people were going
to floors below mine, I would just unpress all of those. Quite
OK - so we work in the world of digital. Here the affordance is a
perceived one. But what about our real lives?
Here's the thing - I want to start a list of unusable real life
things
1. Elevator buttons: when I press the wrong floor (which is quite the
frequent occasion in my uncaffienated
I encounter something unusable every day! I think there should be a
community list that people can access and add/comment thereto.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Catherine Ryan cather...@barros.com.auwrote:
OK - so we work in the world of digital. Here the affordance is a
perceived one. But
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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of Laura
Schertler
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 9:24 AM
To: Catherine Ryan
Cc: disc...@ixda.org
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Unusable things
I encounter something unusable every day! I think there should
un-pressing in the elevator is cool - in korea they have that.
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Welcome to the Interaction
On 28 Sep 2009, at 06:34, gMulder wrote:
un-pressing in the elevator is cool - in korea they have that.
[snip]
Interesting. I did a web site for an elevator company and I talked
about some usability stuff with one of their guys. Amongst other
things they said that they generally didn't
Why do they make/sell cars with speed limits over 220KM/h when the
maximum speed limit is 100KM/H. In Toronto getting caught going
20KM/H over the speed limit results in having your car towed and your
drivers license suspended.
So why do the sell cars that is 2-3 times the legal speed limit on
the
Hi Catherine,
Fun post to read late at night here in OZ!
Usability didn't start with the web. Tactile products with usability
issues are generally designed by an Industrial Designer who is
generally trained to deal with these things, however they are often
designed by mechanical engineers who
: [IxDA Discuss] Unusable things
Why do they make/sell cars with speed limits over 220KM/h when the
maximum speed limit is 100KM/H. In Toronto getting caught going
20KM/H over the speed limit results in having your car towed and your
drivers license suspended.
So why do the sell cars that is 2-3 times
uh, here's my thought reading this thread.
1. it is always great to catalog failure. Scott Berkun in his
presentations talks about this a lot.
2. this feels thought a bit off. You start out basically saying as
a digital designer there is nothing I can do about this, but let's
create a list of
Ryan
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 5:16 AM
To: disc...@ixda.org
Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Unusable things
OK - so we work in the world of digital. Here the affordance is a
perceived one. But what about our real lives?
Here's the thing - I want to start a list of unusable real life
things
1
*Catherine said:
*3. Coffee cups without handles: OK - I'm a great lover of style and
aesthetics, however when it burns my hands *off...I'd find it more
classy to have a handle and not have tears in my eyes from lifting my
beloved caffeine to my *mouth.
I read somewhere that in China, cups don't
On Sep 28, 2009, at 10:53 AM, Bryan Minihan wrote:
6. Lawn Mower height controls: Maybe it's just mine, but to change
the
height of my lawn mower, I have to shift some impossibly gunked up
slider on
all four wheels to the exact same position. How about putting some
numbers
on those
* Maurice said:
* Why do they make/sell cars with speed limits over 220KM/h when the
maximum speed limit is 100KM/H?
Acceleration? ;-)
Pierre Roberge
Customer Experience Manager, etfs
#2193
819.566.2901
www.etfsinc.com
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The information transmitted is intended only for the person
Catherine: I want to start a list of unusable real life things
Every design will have a subset of users who find it unusable.
There's no such thing as the perfect design.
Its part of the human condition to continuously add to our internal
list of things that peeve us as we get older.
I used to use pictures of 'real life interaction design' in my
presentations to clients and colleagues to explain what it is I do.
I've always used analogies to explain things and showing something
broken/unusable is great. But, in order to put a positive spin on
things when problems have been
I want all of it. The good, the bad, the lame, the arrogant, simple minded,
the pedantic, the long winded and the short snarkiness. This forum is about
throwing your views out there. There are some week, some months even that I
don't have time to respond to anything... other days I have a
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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of Maurice
Carty
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 6:48 AM
To: disc...@ixda.org
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Unusable things
Why do they make/sell cars with speed limits over 220KM/h when the
maximum speed limit is 100KM/H
my bad... this posted to the wrong conversation.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:50 PM, mark schraad mschr...@gmail.com wrote:
I want all of it. The good, the bad, the lame, the arrogant, simple minded,
the pedantic, the long winded and the short snarkiness. This forum is about
throwing your views
What we need is a button that shocks the user if they press the button
more than necessary. ;-) The type of person that typically acts as
though they can speed up the elevator with multiple button presses
deserves it.
Adrian Howard wrote:
On 28 Sep 2009, at 06:34, gMulder wrote:
[snip]
From: Stephen Holmes stephenwhol...@me.com
1. Elevator buttons - I agree, however what stops somebody who
un-selects YOUR floor so that they go straight past yours to theirs?
Scenes of elevator rage - (pictures at 10!) Solve that one and
you'll be rich!
Is that cause of elevator rage going to be
As long as we don't the same type of intelligent lifts as in
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - these were given prescience so
they knew where to be and where to go and as a consequence got
depressed and sulked in the basement...
One subject close to my heart (and other parts) is that of
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Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Unusable things
Why do they make/sell cars with speed limits over 220KM/h when the
maximum speed limit is 100KM/H. In Toronto getting caught going
20KM/H over the speed limit results in having your car towed and your
drivers license suspended.
So why
As for cups I once asked a wiater in a dim sum restuarant in Calgary
why the tea cups did not have handles and he said if the cup of tea
was too hot to hold in my hands it was probally to hot to put in my
mouth.
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Oh, don't getme started! :)
1. The tendency for humans to stand at the very edge of a baggage
carousel so you can't see your bag, you need to excuse yourself into
the circle when you do see it, then run the risk of injuring someone
getting the bag off the conveyor. If they'd stand back 3
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