Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
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Web 2.0: Good Looking and a Great Personality
Can software make you laugh?
Yes! But for several different reasons.
Sometimes I laugh at software because of how ridiculous it makes it to perform even the most trivial of tasks. There’s an HR portal we have at work, and I always say that if I sat down for a week, with a library stocked full of every HCI [...] -
Terrible Signage on the Chicago Metra
I came across this bit of terrible signage for the Metra train today when I went out to Libertyville for work. Metra is the Chicagoland area’s commuter train; it gets people from downtown to the burbs and back, if you can figure out the signage
This diagram shows how the signs were [...]
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Perfect Petzzz – Why So Delightful?
A Perfect Petzzz toy is a fist-sized puppy or kitten that comes curled up in its own pet bed, and does nothing except sleep. Perfect Petzzz are not soft, not stuffed, and not posable; you can do nothing at all with this toy except to observe its perpetual slumber, day after day. It’s not even suitable [...] -
The Design of Card-Swiping Systems
Trying to get into one of those after-hour ATM airlocks at my local Bank of America, I came across this card reader; it took me a couple of swipes until I was finally granted access (I’m sorry, Dan, I’m afraid I can’t do that …).
The reason it took me so long is because in order [...]
