“Mac and iPod accessories are packaged using a remarkably simple system. On every box or bag, the labeling is clear, the product is shown actual size and the packaging is recyclable.”
So at Chuck E. Cheese’s these days you get a unique code stamped on both you and and your child’s arm before you enter…the idea being you can’t leave with a child that you didn’t come in with.
I’ve been a father for just over 17 months and have started at least 100 sentences sentences with “Back when I was kid we didn’t…”.
A road train consists of up to eight vehicles basically playing follow-the-leader, with a professional driver at the head. Using wireless sensors and sat nav systems, cars communicate with the leader to join or leave the pack. Here’s where the incentive comes in: once part of a convoy, the vehicle goes on autopilot and the driver can then do what he or she wants, be it read, watch TV, or surf the web. (via Road Trains: Faux Highway Autopilot Gives Drivers Time to Watch TV « MobileBehavior)
In Log in or sign up? Leah Culver recommends a combined log-in/register form. I would totally agree and say this was a great design. If I was not using tumblr.
The tumblr homepage shows a signup form when you are not logged in. But if you are a tumblr user and fill in your name and password, the system logs you in directly. Why would you need two buttons? Tumblr knows you have registered!
Tumblrers you are my webdesign heros.
As a side experiment, my colleagues asked several experts in the company for their expert opinion as to what problems users would run into, and compiled them into a list. (These experts included the software designers, domain experts, and the people who trained users on the software.) Then my colleagues ran their study, observing sixteen people using this software for the first time, and made a list of the problems that users actually ran into. The result?
There was not one common item on the two lists.
