Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Bad Design (Bin Bao)

The "shut down" button in Windows vista is not "shut down" by default,
but is "standby". But it is so counter-intuitive, because that little
button is so widely used as symbol for shutting down in our daily
life. I once showed my vista (English version) to my cousin, and she
doesn't know English at all. She said: I don't know English, but I
know how to turn the computer off. Then she clicked that icon, but
didn't get what she expected. Well, don't challenge people's general
knowledge about the world.

(I don't have windows vista installed now, so the picture is from the internet)

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