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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005, 3:34 am

Design Bugs

Broken CRT

Certain design bugs are so common that we have become too blind to spot them. An essay titled Ten Most Persistent Design Bugs makes some excellent observations.

  • If the computer loses power for more than a few thousandths of a second, it throws everything away.
  • Designers offer no way for users to discover why a given menu or option has been dimmed (grayed out), nor how to turn it back on.
  • 15 Dec 2008 sorts as being before 2 Jan 1900

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