When products attack -or- How bad design makes your users loose sleep
Design Principles, Failure, Product Design | (0)
иконографияКартинимека мебел
I’ll admit it: I’m grumpy right now.
Why, you might ask? This morning, as I was snoozing blissfully way at 3:30a or so, one of the smoke detectors in my house decided it was low on batteries. <CHIRP>.
Why is always seems to happen in the nether-hours of the evening is another topic, but through the frustration of this experience, it got me thinking about design principles.
Some key elements of the design failure:
The only way that the smoke alarm shows it’s running low on batteries is by making a “chirp” sound
The interval between the chirps in random, though it does ...