CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
The infamous control panel of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant which [almost invited human error]. Horrific human factors: The image shows the maintenance tags that operators testified covered one of the closed emergency feedwater valve indicator lights during … Continued
Title: 6 Disasters Caused by Poorly Designed User Interfaces Context: Don’t think good user experience matters? Care to stake your life on it? Because you just might lose it. Synopsis: Usually, when someone makes a poor user experience design decision … Continued
If a good designer needs to have empathy to be a good designer than any designer who watches this and doesn’t feel horrible isn’t a good designer. via youtube.com
Title: Failure: The Secret to Success Context: Success does not happen without failure. Period. Synopsis: If you can’t learn from your mistakes, you can’t learn. If you are afraid of making mistakes, you can’t succeed. One of the better corporate … Continued
Most faucets suck. But the particular brand of cruelty exercised by hotel interior designers is particularly viscous. via: Parts unknown
Title: Six Factors for Highly Unsuccessful Products Context: Light 3 minute video to help you wind up your week with a smile. A very knowing, wry, been-there-done-that smile… Synopsis: From the site: “At the FailCon 2010 conference in San Francisco, … Continued