UsabilityRants.org This is my venting about software. It's not constructive. It doesn't have grand insights into proper usability. It's just notes of things that annoy me, and, sometimes, positive comments. Many of the posts are opinionated, emotional, and poorly edited. It's a blog, not a thesis. in Public bookmarkswith blogdesignnotfoundrantsusability
Users Fix Parking Ticket Machine Interface Themselves - uselog.com | the product usability weblog And once again it's a parking ticket machine that drives users nuts (see another one here). And this time to the extent that they've taken their fate into their own hands and added some 'customized' labels to the device. I think we can add parking ticket machines to the category of 'things that always suck', that also includes office telephones and presentation equipment in meeting rooms. I do hope that the designers saw the 'modification' that users made, because it shows them that really anyone can make a better design than they did... in Public bookmarkswith baddesignnotfoundguerillainterfacemachineparkingticketusability