Having a pleasant face-to-face interaction with a stranger every morning is invigorating and energizing. Bus driver, barista, fellow passenger, dog owner, you name it. #lifegoals
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So LinkedIn is now about congratulating people for new positions, work anniversaries and birthdays. I have 2-6 of those notifications EVERY DAY!
I am happy that research like this exists. š¦ x.com/wef/status/953ā¦
How do you react when letters home from school contain 7-9 grammar and spelling mistakes?
āŖ Replying to @classen_shannon
@classen_shannon Of course! Sharing is my game :)
@classen_shannon Iāve also uploaded the clip to Vimeo if that makes it easier for you to use in class: vimeo.com/251112183
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https://medium.com/misusability/the-usability-of-buttons-that-harm-or-save-lives-d0dcb22e325d
Mina tankar om incidenten pƄ Hawaii i helgen.
https://medium.com/misusability/the-usability-of-buttons-that-harm-or-save-lives-d0dcb22e325d
I just published: The Usability of Buttons that Harm or Save Lives
https://medium.com/@axbom/the-usability-of-buttons-that-harm-or-save-lives-d0dcb22e325d
āŖ Replying to @FarukSpeaks
@KuraFire I agree with this sentiment (warning must align with severeness of outcome) although in a system like this it must be practically impossible to select the wrong option in the first place.
NEVER base a purchase decision on an alleged discount. x.com/walterstephaniā¦
Incredibly important thread. More of us need to understand this aspect of being "frozen" when harassed or assaulted. It's called tonic immobility, or involuntary paralysis. x.com/eveewing/statuā¦
āŖ Replying to @OrangeFact
@OrangeFact @MabandeOpenBeta You need to follow this bot that corrects people using the wrong flag. Love it. x.com/axbom/status/9ā¦
āŖ Replying to @PressSec45
@PressSec What does that even mean if the sentence doesnāt continue?
āIād probably...ā if what?
WSJ should have understood it was an incoherent sentence rather than a coherent one?
Iāve used this clip from Monsters vs Aliens in lectures about usability over the years. Never could I have imagined I would truly worry about the actual design of this, allegedly big, button as much as I currently do. Also, the Oprah reference is now uncanny...
It appears the operator in Hawaii had two options in a drop-down menu:
(1) Test missile alert
(2) Missile alert
In a drop-down there are no visual cues to guide the user, no size or color differences, no marked distance between click areas.
washingtonpost.com/news/post-natiā¦
The only difference in options is the word āTestā. Both options may display, āAre you sure?ā but thinking you have selected the right one you will always select āYes/Continueā.
I have no idea about this dropdown but sometimes people inadvertently select an unintended option because mouse scroll wheels also scroll in dropdowns.
A dropdown may in fact be the worst possible design option for this type of interaction. Or to be more clear: devastatingly inappropriate.
Added to this: there was no way to easily cancel and undo the outgoing alert once the operator was aware of the mistake. No way to automatically send out a correction.
Ideally I would expect a call for UX/usability professionals to review computerized tools across the world, but alas I believe we will continue to see interface mistakes larger than this one.
I now hope Hawaii will be as transparent as possible about the chain of events, to create awareness and keep repeated mistakes of the same kind to a minimum in all countries.
Never before has the importance of positive friction in interfaces been so glaringly obvious.
I just published: The Usability of Buttons that Harm or Save Lives
medium.com/@axbom/the-usaā¦
OMFG. This appears to be the interface that was at fault for the ballistic missile alarm on Hawaii. It is way way worse than I possibly could have conjured up in my wildest dreams.
x.com/CivilBeat/statā¦
So in my article yesterday I referenced WarGames (the movie), but I did not see this image coming... #hawaii
Ā» Yesterday's article: medium.com/misusability/tā¦
You can now get a feel for the interface (The mockup interaction is purely based on imagination and lack of time - any similarities with the actual interaction design, beyond what is in the screenshot, is purely coincidental).
udo.se/hawaii/ #hawaii
Just now realized why the number ā1ā is there. In a fit of desperation the users tried to see if they could sort the links by numbering the template names...
Stop the presses! This also is not the correct interface... civilbeat.org/2018/01/hawaiiā¦ via @andysternberg #hawaii
Been coming across some ādesign suggestionsā for the Emergency Warning Messaging interface... some of them are really not showing the profession in good light. š¬ Or I just donāt know what a joke is anymore. š¤Ŗ
I think we can agree that spending a few hours āthrowing something togetherā is how problems arise. Whatever the chain of events leading to the incident, problems are systemic and bigger and broader than a single interface.
Read @jmspoolās take on the likely setup that contributed to the false ballistic missile alert: filenames. medium.com/ux-immersion-iā¦ #hawaii
Love this table to help us understand the scale of time in which a computer operates. Found via the article Meltdown, Spectre and the State of Technology: stratechery.com/2018/meltdown-ā¦
āŖ Replying to @TexasLiberty15
@TexasLiberty15 Agree, not required but very likely. Hereās the same physician on Obama: obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/ā¦
A doctor would also sign āRonny Jackson, MDā, not āDr. Ronny Jackson.ā But whatevs, this seems to be actual reality now. The president faking a note to get out of gym class. x.com/maddowblog/staā¦
āŖ Replying to @emanuelkarlsten
@emanuelkarlsten VƤldigt sant. Jag blev mest fƶrvƄnad att det ƶht dƶk upp!