We’re heading out on the Great White Whale Road Trip 2009— from here to Boston to Providence to three days of meetings at Wheaton College, then across New England in a rented Dodge Charger to Middlebury College, three days there, then back to Boston and home. Five Whales, one Gothic Guesthouse, some cameras, a few baseball gloves, etc. It should be a wicked good time.
Anyway, in the process of checking the weather at Middlebury I visited the Weather Underground site— I understand it’s one of the leading sites out there, for this sort of thing, right? — and was confronted with the following site design, whose ghastly, horrifying awfulness may haunt my dreams tonight:
This should serve as a reminder to you UI folks: Keep fighting the good fight, but remember: people are willing to swim through some pretty scary and shark-infested user interfaces to find a bit of information.