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Posts Tagged ‘usability’

Restart Now? OK, How About Now?

In Design Discourse on 14 July 2005 tagged Unfiled, usability, windows with 4 comments

What genius at Microsoft decided it would be a good idea, after an automated Windows Update, to not only give you a “we’re going to restart your computer in 5 mins if you don’t stop us” dialog but have it come up every 15 mins or so with no recourse to stop it?!?!

So if it [...]

Passport Usability

In Road Warrior on 21 November 2004 tagged immigration, usability with 3 comments

Yesterday, I flew into San Francisco International (SFO) from London Heathrow (LHR). As usual, I had an interesting time with the US Immigration but for once, it’s not about their lack of training or the paranoia that now engulfs American culture made explicit by the fingerprint scanners or digital cameras at each desk.

No, this time, [...]

New From Adobe!

In Design Discourse on 18 March 2004 tagged adobe, usability with 4 comments

What is it with Adobe’s Photoshop series? EVERY new version, they seem to redefine their File menu. Of all the menus, that one should be the easiest to keep consistent. O for opening a file, S for saving, right? Last time, Adobe changed the recently opened files to be in a submenu of File. Worse [...]