Re: Strange user interface design

Sylvia Else:

Warning - slight rant content.
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I've been coming across multiple instances where a program
displays what appears to be a prompt screen, e.g. "Choose
between cash or card." only to immediately display some
other screen. In the example given, on a self-checkout
device, if the only option is card, then it goes
immediately to the screen telling me to use my card.
[...]

This happens when UI is renamed into UX (Usee eXploitation,
(c) xwindows), and its design delegated to artists instead
of interface engineers.

I had a funny bug on my OnePlus A5.  When a talk over the
phone ended, I would take the phone away from my ear and
press the /Hand up/ button.  Half the time, however, the
other party would hang up first and the call window with the
/Hang up/ button would disappear just before I tapped it.
As the result, my tap would land smack dab on the person I
just called, on the underlying /Contacts/ window and
initiate dialing.  I have dumbphone now, but modern
dumbphones are all dumper interface-wise than my dear
Siemens C25, from 1995.

Railroad ticket-vending machines here in Russia play a dirty
trick on anybody wishing to buy a physical ticket, instead
of adding funds to a transport card.  The first time you
press /Single ride/, you end up in a window that has no
option for buying a physical ticket.  You have to press
/Back/ and then go to /Single ride/ again.  That's a cruel
way of discouraging the use of normal tickets and imposing
transport cards.

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