Chapter 42 » wheaton http://chapter42.whitewhale.net Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:20:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Something worth remembering for you interface designers out there http://chapter42.whitewhale.net/2009/04/20/something-worth-remembering-for-you-interface-designers-out-there/ http://chapter42.whitewhale.net/2009/04/20/something-worth-remembering-for-you-interface-designers-out-there/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:07:00 +0000 Jason http://chapter42.whitewhale.net/?p=307 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:
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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.

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