What are good war stories about HCI / web design / UX design?
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http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html. http://www.dustincurtis.com/dear_american_airlines.html. http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/design_as_practiced.html. What are other great war stories about HCI / web design / UX design? My colleagues and I are considering starting out lectures for our summer course in HCI with a discussion of a war story about the challenges of human-centered design in practice. What are the best stories you know of that can help spur discussion about the joys, challenges, and frustrations that they will face in industry? To help set the context, the students are already reasonably well-versed in a lot of classwork and theory about HCI and user-centered design. We also had a great discussion about the 41 shades of blue, almost everyone in the room had heard of it.
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http://www.folklore.org/index.py is a good source for early Mac design stories. I quite like http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Do_It.txt.
Rhaomi
flabdablet
Err..contact me and I will regale you with my institution's nightmare of web design. It seriously could be a case study.
jadepearl
The https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Therac-25:The Therac-25 was a radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) after the Therac-6 and Therac-20 units (the earlier units had been produced in partnership with CGR of France). It was involved in at least six accidents between 1985 and 1987, in which patients were given massive overdoses of radiation, approximately 100 times the intended dose.[2] These accidents highlighted the dangers of software control of safety-critical systems, and they have become a standard case study in health informatics and software engineering.Admittedly, most of its failures were software engineering related but there're some frightening UI issues that excerbated the problem.
asymptotic
Aw, 'cmon http://ask.metafilter.com/182100/What-are-good-war-stories-about-HCI-web-design-UX-design#2619775...We're all friends here. We'd all love to hear your story!
Thorzdad
spongeboy
Dude, I am STILL living the case study. All I can say is that one morning the university opened up and had a new website without forewarning to students, faculty and staff. This was done during registration no less, so students were confused on where the course schedule was posted, catalog and course descriptions. Here is a stat: More than 65% of navigation is done by using the google search bar on the site (did I mention that was a later, demanded feature?) because it is too confusing to navigate. Oh yeah, the university president at the time, let Marketing own the university website 'cause the web is about marketing nothing else.
jadepearl
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