Either way, it’s fairly effective signage. Good (though not ISO-standard) use of color. And the upper-case WARNING is pretty clear.
Plus, I just looooove the sliding figure. I could look at that all day.
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December 2006
Hiding wayyyy down at the bottom, instead of right underneath the cart.
OK, not the most compelling post in the world. But hey, I’m on vacation, like half of the rest of the world.
Click the picture to see a larger version, so you can see what I mean.
When I got to the cart, I searched for a couple minutes before finally scrolling down and locating it.
Yes, it was a bit of a n00b error, but we all make ‘em sometimes…which is all the more reason to design so they don’t happen.
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I’m happy to report that the publisher of “my” book “Usability Success Stories“, has lowered the price to US$60.00. With a 15% discount from purchasing via Gower’s web site, the price falls to US$51.00 plus shipping.
Yeeha.
You can click here to purchase it direct from Ashgate/Gower, or you can download the order form from this link.
(I put airquotes around “my” because I wrote 3 of the 10 chapters, edited the other contributors’ chapters, and produced or reworked the images and illustrations. So technically the book isn’t all mine. Just trying to avoid megalomania…)
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Last week I flew to Austin TX, site of the upcoming 2007 Usability Professionals’ Association annual conference.
Surprisingly, my rental car was was a Daewoo or Daihatsu, I forget which. (I didn’t think US rental car companies put Korean cars in their fleets.) It drove a lot better than I was expecting – I was prepared for a bone-jarring Hyundai-style ride.
However, when I stopped to fill the tank before returning it, I got a nasty surprise: the gas cap door release switch was nowhere to be found. I looked for it for a good 10 minutes, in all the usual places – next to the seat rails, to the left of the steering column on the lower dashboard panel, on the center console…to no avail.
Meanwhile, a line of cars started piling up behind me, all waiting to get gas. I scrambled around frantically in the dim light, until….finally…I found it. On the door panel. Tucked underneath the power window buttons. Completely invisible from the driver’s seat.
Man, was *that* annoying.
Why couldn’t they just put it on the floor or the dashboard, like every other manufacturer?
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I just found out that Gower has posted the first chapter of the book I edited.
The PDF of Chapter 1 can be found here: http://www.gowerpub.com/pdf/Usability_Success_Stories_Intro.pdf
I still don’t think you should buy it at 100+ dollars, though. (If you want to know why, you can read my rant.)
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