The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday

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Post by robin_reala » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 12:53 PM UTC

The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday
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Post by matt4077 » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 1:19 PM UTC

This is going to be in every single UI class curriculum, from now until earth‘s destruction in nuclear armageddon.

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Post by empath75 » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 1:19 PM UTC

What kind of ux design is that???

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Post by alex_duf » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 1:19 PM UTC

If this is true, It's a miracle mistakes aren't made more often...

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Post by PKop » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 1:21 PM UTC

Probably the worst UX design (considering the context and the stakes) I've ever seen.

How could multiple people accept this as the interface? Put it on a separate page! Have an explicit confirmation dialog, or 3 of them. At the very least maybe it's own section with some padding...

Ridiculous.

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Post by oliv__ » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 1:22 PM UTC

Yikes... is this for real

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Post by empath75 » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 1:25 PM UTC

PKop wrote: post #5

Probably the worst UX design (considering the context and the stakes) I've ever seen. How could multiple people accept this as the interface? Put it on a separate page! Have an explicit confirmation dialog, or 3 of them. At the very least maybe it's own section with some padding... Ridiculous.

It just needs an ‘under construction’ GIF to make it perfect.

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Post by robertcope » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 1:27 PM UTC

They probably paid a million dollars for that system, too.

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Post by andrepd » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 1:27 PM UTC

Yikes. Now consider this: this is the design for the missile warning system. It is possible, even likely, that some missile launch system has similar catastrophic UI.

How we've not wiped ourselves off by accident so far is a miracle.

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Post by megaman22 » Tue, Jan 16, 2018, 1:27 PM UTC

Holy hell... I was expecting some old ncurses mainframe design with shitty interface, but if it's just an href... seems like it'd be trivial to hack and cause havoc