fuck yeah, interaction design

So, I was quite surprised to find out that it also detects when I am drunk and just need to get home in one piece. For those special occasions “Get Me Home” is so prominent, you really can’t miss it. If you managed to launch the app, rest assured - you’ll get home tonight.

Fuck yeah, waterfalls The IKEA Vållö watering can looks good but does a pretty poor job in the one thing it is supposed to do - watering your plants. I didn’t know it is possible to actually screw up something as basic as a watering can but this one proves it. This watering can lacks a pipe. It offers more of a waterfall functionality - the more you pour, the more comes out. So. What? Well, you don’t know how much water is left in the can, so you don’t know at what angle the water will start pouring out. And more importantly, at what angle the water will start flowing over the edge. So if you can’t do blind pouring, can’t you just look at what you’re doing? Nope. When I water my plants, I often can’t see shit. Either the plant is on top of bookcase, the leaves are hiding the ‘water landing zone’, etc. The IKEA Vållö can made me realize that over the years I had (unconsciously) developed a 'pouring approach': hold the can at such an angle that water is guaranteed to come out at a certain maximum amount per second through the pipe. Do this for x seconds and you know with how much water you’re drowning your plant. Not possible with the Vållö. It offers no constant water output and has a high risk for watering everything but the plant. Note: a friend later told me that what makes this watering can interesting is that its manufacturing process is extremely straightforward (read: cheap) because of the lack of a pipe. Well, hooray!

Fuck yeah, onnish/offish You find these door-answering-slash-opening-machines in many Dutch apartments nowadays (most popular model?). I was baffled when I first tried to use one at a friend’s place: what’s up with all those on/off buttons?! I didn’t even know there were so many variations, is this telecom-lingo or something? Anyways, forget those four buttons, you never need them. They are there for purely decorative reasons as the button to open the door with is on the bottom right corner. Once you know, you know.

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Update: I contacted ING on Twitter and the appropriate department has now been notified. We'll see what happens.

“children see things differently”. Very clear and creative way of conveying a simple message - with impact. This is a billboard campaign for (Dutch) http://www.nieuwe-etiketten.nl to make people aware of how children perceive the world and its inherent dangers.

Very nice indeed, no more need for these kind of things. 

I call it the DVD menu issue because that's when I first encountered this issue. You try to set something that has two options (e.g. subtitle language), but have to resolve to guessing because it is unclear which color is the default color and which color your selection/cursor.

Every time I visit a wikipedia I see random wiki-famous face above positioned exactly above the title of the page. It means more cash for Wikipedia but also deluding your users - if only for a couple of milliseconds. 

Nice concept by Samsung. Using the physical book medium to offer a non-digital walkthrough. Beautiful execution and brilliant for those users that are not as tech-savvy.

Don't be surprised if you find yourself struggling for a quarter trying to figure out how to release the lock before you start using brute-force.

Directions. Trying to project horizontal space on a vertical plane leads to ambiguous signs.