A few incidents involving badly designed user interfaces

 

• A professor loses half an hour The image shows the login page for submitting projects to the National Science Foundation. The form fields where data need to be entered are clearly divided into two columns entitled "Login for PI or Co-PI" and "Login for other authorized users".

• A professor and three staff lose two hours

• Errors are made in presidential elections

• An airliner gets shot down The picture shows U.S.S. Vincennes in open sea

• A nuclear power plant gets out of control The image shows the Three-Mile Island nuclear power plant.

• ICS 205 students ... The image shows a photocopy machine in the 4th floor of the ICS department The image shows a display of the photocopy machine with instructions for starting it. The image shows the login instructions of the photocopy machine. The image shows the keyboard of the photocopy machine that is used to punch in the access code. It also shows the reset button (prominent) and the clear button (inconspicuous)