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]]> by: paper shredders http://www.webword.com/wp/2004/10/25/the-cost-of-bad-design-12779103482-usd/#comment-31030 Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:05:45 +0000 http://www.webword.com/wp/2004/10/25/the-cost-of-bad-design-12779103482-usd/#comment-31030 Perhaps the owners of the fax machine that caused the problem couldn’t tell the difference between their current and those peoples state their owns. Perhaps the owners of the fax machine that caused the problem couldn’t tell the difference between their current and those peoples state their owns.

]]> by: RonZ http://www.webword.com/wp/2004/10/25/the-cost-of-bad-design-12779103482-usd/#comment-8799 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.webword.com/wp/2004/10/25/the-cost-of-bad-design-12779103482-usd/#comment-8799 Once again self-titled designers everywhere find a cost that they think has something to do with what they do...<br /> <br /> No, bad design did not cost $127,791,034.82. Human error did. Perhaps the fax machine could have been designed to prevent such errors. Perhaps some designers are capable of creating such designs for fax machines. Perhaps a company would create a fax machine with such a design. Perhaps the owners of the fax machine that caused the problem couldn't tell the difference between their current, problematic machine and others that people assert are better designed.<br /> <br /> Perhaps there are many other solutions, all much easier, that don't involve redesigning the fax machine at all... Once again self-titled designers everywhere find a cost that they think has something to do with what they do…

No, bad design did not cost $127,791,034.82. Human error did. Perhaps the fax machine could have been designed to prevent such errors. Perhaps some designers are capable of creating such designs for fax machines. Perhaps a company would create a fax machine with such a design. Perhaps the owners of the fax machine that caused the problem couldn’t tell the difference between their current, problematic machine and others that people assert are better designed.

Perhaps there are many other solutions, all much easier, that don’t involve redesigning the fax machine at all…

]]> by: Anonymous http://www.webword.com/wp/2004/10/25/the-cost-of-bad-design-12779103482-usd/#comment-8800 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.webword.com/wp/2004/10/25/the-cost-of-bad-design-12779103482-usd/#comment-8800 <p>I vote no fax machine. I hate the damn things. Partly because I always have trouble using them. Maybe they have high learnability? My guess is that they will be around for a while though.</p> <p>What I would like to know is does the company that made it have any internal reaction to this. Or other companies that make the machines? I don't think change will come from humans refusing to use them. So that leaves any potential optimization options up to the designers (and those they work with) to figure something out. Or maybe they won't and just keep making money anyway.</p> I vote no fax machine. I hate the damn things. Partly because I always have trouble using them. Maybe they have high learnability? My guess is that they will be around for a while though.

What I would like to know is does the company that made it have any internal reaction to this. Or other companies that make the machines? I don’t think change will come from humans refusing to use them. So that leaves any potential optimization options up to the designers (and those they work with) to figure something out. Or maybe they won’t and just keep making money anyway.

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