Public notice of the day
So many people mistook this speaker for something else that they had to stick a sign on it.
Well it does kinda look like a bin, and for Tom Greever, who shared it on Twitter, there were lessons to be learned here.
Wherever there is a handmade sign, there's usually a design problem pic.twitter.com/Bxse3RCvEN
— Tom Greever (@tomgreever) October 11, 2018
You want to find usability issues with your enterprise software product? Go to your customer's desks and look for signs, usually post-it notes, stuck on or near their computer display.
— Tom Greever (@tomgreever) October 11, 2018
Context is also part of design. Why is that speaker where a garbage can should be?
— John Palmer (@jwpalmer) October 11, 2018
Agree. But did the manufacturer consider the context in which they would be used? I’m not sure it’s the user’s fault.
— Tom Greever (@tomgreever) October 11, 2018
I would have immediately put a sign on the nearest garbage can that said ATTENTION! THIS IS NOT A SPEAKER. IT IS A GARBAGE CAN. DO NOT LISTEN TO IT!!!!
— Tim Helming can't even. (@timhelming) October 11, 2018
Now you've got me thinking about the handmade signs in every single office kitchen, and how office kitchens are a design problem…
— Roger Nesbitt (@mogest) October 12, 2018
Next time you’re checking out at a store, peek at the register, computers, keypads that face away from customers… it’s facinating
— Tom Greever (@tomgreever) October 12, 2018
And then there was this.
So. Many. Labels. pic.twitter.com/5Ai8vf4S35
— geoffclapp (@geoffclapp) October 12, 2018
