Posts Tagged ‘affordances

hygiene FAIL

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1 Jun 2009

You can have soap or water…but not both! When the faucet is on, it is impossible to squeeze your hand above the tap to get some soap. The odd part is that there was plenty of room next to each sink to fit the soap dispenser, which is what every other public bathroom in [...]

I’m not that fond of the Camera app for the iPhone, but I’m quite fond of Night Camera, and I think the latter fixes a couple of really big problems in the former.
For starters, it’s incredibly difficult to avoid blurry photos because of how you hold the iPhone to take pictures. I have probably 1 [...]


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My name is Leanna Gingras and I'm a graduate student at the University of Michigan's School of Information. My main vice is angry muttering. Instead of angrily muttering to myself whenever I encounter an astonishingly ineptly-designed object, I will mutter about it here and you can read it and we can angrily mutter together. I'll also be posting about stuff I do, links I think are nifty, and places I go.

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