An Extremely Inconvenient ATM
An engineer-friend sent me this photo — I’m filing it under User Interfaces From Hell.” It’s almost as funny as the instructions on this ATM display– anyone up for solving a complex algebraic equation on the fly…
User interface
Some Bloody Fun IT Humour, Really
And you think you’re having a bad day? A witty, entertaining, and rather gorey take on life at work — courtesy of our IT department. Click to play…
Gender-specific User Interfaces
Although I think I’m pretty easy to figure out, my husband (who is an engineer) would almost certainly agree with this definition of the female species, as explained by engineers…
User Interfaces From Hell - Part II
An extremely complex GUI and instructions not included. John Volanski won an auction on eBay for Arturia Moog Modular software (an emulation of the Moog Modular analog synthesizer.) It showed up in his mailbox in brown paper wrap (never a good sign) sans the 300-page manual, which can’t…
User Interfaces From Hell
With minutes to spare, I was attempting recently to check in at a Eurostar kiosk at Waterloo Station in London. A prompt appeared on screen to hit the “enter” button. After many precious seconds of fruitless searching, and after having to enlist the help of a Eurostar employee (who so…