One of the homework assignments is to find two examples each for the ui hall of shame and the ui hall of fame. Here are a few of the most annoyingly sexy 3d renderings for virtual instruments that weve seen in the last year. Likewise, the bad design does not have to be uniformly bad. Let me take you back to 25 may, 1999 one look at quicktime 4. View notes lecture from cse 331 at university of washington. Inside its cabinet, the scientists found the carcass of. Novelty has its place, without it, we never would have achieved graphics interfaces.
Interface hall of shame normally, a horizontal scrollbar underneath an image or document, or some other content is designed for scrolling the content horizontally. The tabs have many entirely straightforward and nonoverlapping titles. This site is an absolute mustread a term i do not use lightly for anyone involved in the design of guis, be it as software. The interface hall of shame is an irreverent collection of common interface design mistakes. Interface hall of shame inconsistent with common usage of scrollbars usually used. Software interfaces a software interface is used to allow either two pieces of software to communicate with each other software software interface, or to allow software to communicate with a hardware device software hardware interface. Jun 28, 2019 help populate the ui hall of fame and shame. Its very hard to find a large interface thats completely good or completely bad, so dont try. Functionality is obviously fine, but holy crap its like they intentionally tried to make every setting impossible to find in the ui.
Special honor dedicated to some of the crappiest members of society, who deserve no attention at all due to their lack of value as individuals, but that manage to titillate the stupid masses and capture the idiotic attention of mainstream media. Lecture cse 331 software design implementation hal. There are hundreds of examples of software related failures, some minor and some. The more you use software interfaces the more these buzz words will be understood. User interface hall of shame department of software engineering. When someone creates an entire humor site dedicated to mocking it. Welcome back, the topic for this video is an introduction to the concept of user interface hall of fame hall of shame. The core problem is that it violates the usability principle that the user should always feel like they are in control of the software. Often this is in a quest to make the program appear new, different, or, pardon the term, cool. Note that the good design does not have to be uniformly good, since you may discover problems with it on closer inspection. There are hundreds of examples of softwarerelated failures, some minor and some. We are constantly searching for examples of design practices that are worthy of extinction, and those worthy of emulation see the interface hall of. The 2009 sexy 3d ad for a virtual instrument hall of shame. Find 2 examples of good user interface design, and 2 examples of bad user interface design.
Ui hall of fame and shame due session 6 help populate the ui hall of fame and shame. Sep 15, 2004 help populate the ui hall of fame and shame. This post is for shame and since the nominee has so many things to discuss im only doing. The hall of shame is sponsored by isys information architects, a company that spends every day creating interface designs and usability engineering services for its clients. User interface design and implementation through their free opencourseware website. Software hall of shame your picks page 2 programming.
The windows 95 find applet is critically examined in the indepth section of the interface hall of shame, but a portion of that discussion bears repitition here. Secondly, and more importantly, most of the mobile os platforms with this issue have gone through several major upgrades and not fixed the problem despite all the bad press about it. Great interface disasters originally published 2007 in atomic. Entries from the software failure hall of shame, part 1 if your organization is lucky and competent enough to have a popular or high profile software project or offering, it may be only a latent defect or unknown security vulnerability away from global notoriety. After a survey of recent writings on user interface design, this title covers a wide range of topics in very short chapters with a minimum of software engineering jargon.
Interface hall of shame visual elements some developers seem to go out of their way to make their programs difficult to read or understand. The interface hall of shame michael erikssons homepage. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. Gettin buggy with it in 1947, as harvard researchers were testing the mark ii computer, the machine suddenly stopped. In this context, the phrase was coined by willy brandt, and it was used by the government of west berlin, and later popularized in the englishspeaking world and elsewhere from the beginning of the 1960s. Most software engineering is about communicating with other programmers.
Nero info tool ahead, the creators of famous nero cddvdburning and managing whateverdatayouhaveonyourpc software suite is responsible for very powerful from the technology point of view engines as well as some of the worst software uis you may ever find out nowadays in such programs. Since a realworld handheld electronic device typically employs a thumbwheel to control the volume, the designers concluded that it would work just as well in a software application. We are constantly searching for examples of design practices that are worthy of extinction, and those worthy of emulation. User interface hall of fame shame introduction and overview. Welcome back, the topic for this video is an introduction to the concept of user interface hall of famehall of shame. Feb 01, 2016 youll learn techniques for rapidly prototyping and evaluating interfaces. Interface hall of shame normally, a horizontal scrollbar underneath an image or document, or some other content is designed for. Software interfaces a software interface is used to allow either two pieces of software to communicate with each other softwaresoftware interface, or to allow software to communicate with a hardware device softwarehardware interface. Youll learn techniques for rapidly prototyping and evaluating interfaces. With the interface hall of shame, theyre poking fun at those unfortunate interface designers of fewer talents by pointing out how software should not be designed. Our hope is that by highlighting these problems, we can help developers avoid making similar mistakes. Jul, 2001 the hall of shame is sponsored by isys information architects, a company that spends every day creating interface designs and usability engineering services for its clients. Okay, you might have said something involving reports from the usability testing, or maybe even some axiomatic list of ux smells. A new or infrequent user looking at the window sees the scrollbar, assumes it serves that function, and ignores it.
Recruiting users i thought this was an imaginative way to recruit people for research sessions. Schandmauer is a phrase that is most commonly associated with the berlin wall. The editor at scientific american clearly didnt get the memo that links need to make sense out of context. Its very hard to find a large interface thats completely good or. Sep 14, 2005 help populate the ui hall of fame and shame.
Ahead, the creators of famous nero cddvdburning and managing whateverdatayouhaveonyourpc software suite is responsible for very powerful from the technology point of view engines as well as some of the worst software uis you may ever find out nowadays in such programs. Find two examples of user interfaces, one that you consider a good design and one that you consider a bad design. User interface hall of shame redesigning the interface another for. User interface hall of fame and shame help populate the ui hall of fame and shame.
The users of your software should be the drivers, not the passengers. It is in the header at the end of the page list and only shows up there. In this course, you will gain an understanding of the critical importance of user interface design. This entry was posted in shame on january 30, 2019 by dtravisphd. Despite the first idea posted for this blog being bad interfaces, i only just now got to add a search function to it. Here is how it should have been done, seen at the delta crown club in bostons logan airport. Ask toyota how their users felt about their products deciding independently that more speed might be nice. Find two examples of user interfaces, one that you consider a. Last weekend one of our writers recommended a book about unix and introduced it by quoting an essay likening linux to a hightech tank. This entry was posted in advertising, complaint, disability, ihos, interface hall of shame, microsoft windows, software bug and tagged e10s, microsoft edge, mozilla firefox, screen reader, windows 10 on january 1, 2017 by flowcoef.
User experience hall of shame and fame when user experiences. This site is an absolute mustread a term i do not use lightly for anyone involved in the design of guis, be it as software developers, interface designers, managers involved in the decision process, product managers. If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the faq by clicking the link above. Apples movie editing software isnt a bad program, but this release turned even the most mildmannered editor into an incandescent. Learn introduction to ui design from university of minnesota. Below is an example of when both of these types of interface would be used. First, one of the biggest offending implementations is baked into ios, a product of a company that gets a lot of respect for designing great interfaces. A wonderful example of such interfaces is their nero info tool. Maximum power computing last modified 08feb20 computer users are accustomed to dumb user interfaces. Also it will be helpful to read carefully over the links above and make comparisons among the interfaces described. Usability hall of shame autocorrect improving software. Weve developed lots of idioms for feedback in graphical user interfaces. For the seasoned developer, developing user interfaces for microsoft windows provides a commonsense guide for improving windows user interfaces.
You will also learn industrystandard methods for how to approach the design of a. Through a series of case studies on commercial systems many of which you likely use on a regular basis we will illustrate the benefits of good design. User interfaces are hard to design you are not the user. Which actually isnt all that many, by awfulinterface standards. The 2009 sexy 3d ad for a virtual instrument hall of shame its still october but its not too early to declare the worst trend of 2009. Why does opensource software have such ugly interfaces. This is only one of the latest in a long, dismal history of it projects gone awry see table above, software hall of shame for other notable fiascoes. How do you know when your software has a usability problem. Additionally, wall of shame may be a significant part in the building of a hall of shame, although, more often, a wall of shame is a monument in its own right i. Hexv2 interface and update if this is your first visit, be sure to check out the faq by clicking the link above. Youre correct about standardization, but also flexibility, scalability, extensibility, maintainability, reusability, testability and power. User interface hall of fame shame introduction and. Interface hall of shame this heuristic used to be called, simply, feedback. You will also learn industrystandard methods for how to.
Also it will be helpful to read carefully over the links above and make comparisons among the interfaces described in those links and the new material in the contribution. Design and ux for even a small project is actually quite a lot of work. But additionally, i suspect there are simply fewer designers with the motivation to give away their work than there are developers. Entries from the software failure hall of shame, part 1. Interface hall of shame the date and time look editable but arent click set time for a dialog box instead dialog box displays inconsistently with launch time 12 vs. This topic is really based around the power of specificity of looking at particular examples of good and bad designs. Many, many applications just growed from a simple v1. Being a fresh graduate and having lots of free time, i stumbled upon your site when i was searching for work at home opportunities, good thing i did. Your interfaces might be desktop software, web applications, smartphone apps, consumer devices, car dashboards, building entrances, traffic.
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