tmiles.co.uk » Bad design http://www.tmiles.co.uk/tm a world wide web wizards weblog.....wicked Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:54:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 When a buttons is not a button! http://www.tmiles.co.uk/tm/2008/12/when-a-buttons-is-not-a-button/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.tmiles.co.uk/tm/2008/12/when-a-buttons-is-not-a-button/#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:42:13 +0000 Tommy http://www.tmiles.co.uk/tm/?p=13 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 a label along the lines of ’sound controls:’ would be required.

I received the immortal reply:

‘Not all the buttons are functional, some are purely graphical’

It beggars belief – this trailer was actually provided by a design agency!

]]> http://www.tmiles.co.uk/tm/2008/12/when-a-buttons-is-not-a-button/feed/ 0 My bed… http://www.tmiles.co.uk/tm/2008/06/my-bed/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.tmiles.co.uk/tm/2008/06/my-bed/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:14:47 +0000 Tommy http://www.tmiles.co.uk/tm/?p=12 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 sleep, however, I do seem to be stubbing my toe on its out-turned legs with worryingly regularity.  My wife said that if I was a monkey I would have learnt by now! Maybe its just my big feet.

Photo to follow.

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