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		<title>The Literal Interface</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s post about how touch-based interfaces disintermediate interaction brought to mind a 30-second vignette I witnessed at a hotel in Mexico last month. From behind sunglasses I watched several guests act out one of my favourite interface design rules: people try to interact with what they want to change. There&#8217;s more than one problem with this sign, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="clear: both;">Yesterday&#8217;s post about how touch-based interfaces disintermediate interaction brought to mind a 30-second vignette I witnessed at a hotel in Mexico last month. From behind sunglasses I watched several guests act out one of my favourite interface design rules: people try to interact with what they want to change.</p>
<p style="clear: both;"><a class="image-link" href="http://corvusconsulting.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/IMG_0892.jpg"><img class="linked-to-original" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 10px;" src="http://corvusconsulting.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/IMG_0892-thumb.jpg" alt="" width="380" height="285" /></a>There&#8217;s more than one problem with this sign, like the change from an action/outcome pairing to a translation pairing, but the real problem is that the buttons on the sign really look like buttons, and the arrow points right to them.</p>
<p style="clear: both;">The sign, taken as an interface, was actually a legend to a pair of discrete buttons located elsewhere.</p>
<p style="clear: both;"><a class="image-link" href="http://corvusconsulting.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/IMG_0893.jpg"><img class="linked-to-original" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 10px;" src="http://corvusconsulting.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/IMG_0893-thumb.jpg" alt="" width="380" height="285" /></a>I admit it was a little funny to watch, but it was also a reminder of how we can do so much for people using our products by thinking carefully about where we place controls in relation to where the outputs occur.</p>
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