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When a buttons is not a button!

Posted by Tommy on 10 Dec 2008 | Tagged as: Bad design, Humor, Usability

I was recently working on a minor flash teaser trailer for some e-learning.
While playing with the flash I didn’t have sound on my machine so assumed the buttons at the bottom of the trailer were sound controls. As it wasn’t clear what they were for, I asked the supplier what they did and advised that [...]

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My bed…

Posted by Tommy on 02 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Bad design, Humor, Usability

I’ve just discovered this site: User centered, which “studies the design of every day things”, and it got me thinking:
Is it possible for a bed to suffer from poor usability? I ask, because I think mine does. Not in the truest sense, in that it is perfectly comfortable and I don’t particularly suffer from poor [...]

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