HCI 454: Interaction Design (Spring 2006)

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Design Eye

I found this site that I thought was rather interesting...
It's called "Design Eye for the ____ Guy". One of their latest endeavours was Design Eye for the List Guy... They took craigslist and did a redesign. You can look at what they did under "The Reveal" section of the site below:
http://www.designeye.org/listguy/

What do you guys think about their redesign?

You can also be introducted to the "Fab Five".

Saturday, May 06, 2006

Dining-In.com


I have ordered many times from diningin.com and since I have a login, they have all of my information (address, phone, etc). You would think that if a company had the customer's information already, then they wouldn't make them type it in! Well, dining-in does something almost worse! My address is 525 S State St.... they know this... but the picture is the screen that I get when I login. It always has this address.... which IS NOT mine! I go into my account, and there's my correct address. Why do they make me have to change the address everytime? How insane is that?

Monday, May 01, 2006

Showers can be so Confusing...



Funny story... the other week, I get a message on my phone (it's my mom) saying that she is really confused about my shower and to please call her back. (I am still checking my messages...) The next message is Mom again, now a little more frantic and frustrated!! She is explaining how she has a guest over (and she is staying in my bedroom/bathroom, since it's the guest room) and she can't figure out how to turn on the shower!!

At this point, I am laughing a lot because I am envisioning my mother and her friend trying for hours to figure out how to turn the shower on. Therefore, I call her back to "give her the secret" and she says that she eventually figured it out after calling three more people and having her friend just take a shower in HER shower.

I have included a picture of the shower facuet... the secret is that you have to pull down on the bottom of the facuet (where water is coming out)... there is no warning, no instruction, and the control is HIDDEN! My mom was pretty frustrated and it took up a couple of hours in her day! Have you guys ever encountered this type of shower?