If you’ve ever ridden the 1/2/3 line on the NYC subway, you’ve probably seen one of these signs:
Both the 145th St stop and the South Ferry stop have shorter platforms than the rest of the stations. That means that unless you’re in one of the first five cars, you won’t be able to exit the [...]
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Tags:Customer Experience·New York·Pain·Photography
When you hit Save Draft and you get this message:
WordPress Failure Notice: Your attempt to edit this post has failed. Please try again.
Luckily for me, when I hit the Back button I discovered that WordPress had auto-saved the draft and none of my edits were lost.
Still, perhaps they should consider using a slightly less severe [...]
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Tags:Blogging·Branding·Pain
While at Graceland, I came upon a truck with operating instructions posted on the side. These might be the most confusing instructions I’ve ever seen.
I’m well aware that I’m not the intended audience for this, but there’s so much jargon and such poor grammar that I can’t imagine anyone can understand what this is explaining [...]
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Tags:Pain·Photography·Usability Evaluations
By default, every time someone new follows you on Twitter, you get a notification via email (which you can turn off in the Settings, as I have). Yesterday I saw a bunch of people in my stream talking about a newly designed email notification so I decided to look into it.
Here’s the old notification that [...]
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Tags:Branding·Design·Pain·Twitter