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Archive for March, 2007

Where Does Research Belong?

Monday, March 26th, 2007

A few months back Victor posted about the difficulty of getting approval to do design research in a project. This reminded me of Don Norman’s post last year about realizing that research actually does not belong in design.
Vic is right–Its hard to convince managers to okay research. His commenters though are wrong. Euphemisms [...]

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Stupid Interfaces

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

The “username” and “password” fields are required. Yet the the instructions are to absolutely NOT fill out these fields. So “username” and “password” are both required and prohibited.
This is the the UI equivelent of Jacques Carelman’s “Coffeepot for Masochists.” Well done guys!

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