Comments on: Designing the bleedin’ obvious http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2006/06/19/designing-the-bleedn-obvious/ For more than a decade Marc has been a passionate advocate of placing the customer at the heart of business, working with clients in finance, retail, government and entertainment sectors, helping them craft compelling cross channel customer experiences. Marc champions lean and agile approaches for making customer driven innovation happen. He brings design thinking and creativity to clients, engaging across the organisation with a focus on delivery as well as ideas. He is currently writing a book on Agile Experience Design to be published this Autumn. Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:33:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Sam http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2006/06/19/designing-the-bleedn-obvious/comment-page-1/#comment-63254 Sam Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:59:01 +0000 http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/?p=52#comment-63254 To Dushan Hanuska: The color coded levels has too many colors in my opinion. It becomes distracting; to the eyes so many colors is almost the same as a single color. On the up side, I guess it works when you use it everyday and always go to a particular floor. The book "DEOT" is a great book. I happen to be taking a course using this book. In fact, I came upon this blog when researching for an assignment. To Dushan Hanuska:

The color coded levels has too many colors in my opinion. It becomes distracting; to the eyes so many colors is almost the same as a single color. On the up side, I guess it works when you use it everyday and always go to a particular floor.

The book “DEOT” is a great book. I happen to be taking a course using this book. In fact, I came upon this blog when researching for an assignment.

]]> By: Simon Harris http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2006/06/19/designing-the-bleedn-obvious/comment-page-1/#comment-1348 Simon Harris Wed, 21 Jun 2006 03:47:26 +0000 http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/?p=52#comment-1348 Although probably not so in this particular case, "the bleedin' obvious" is very often culturally biased. Something taken for granted and thus seen as bleedin' obvious in Japan may not be so in in Australia for example. Although probably not so in this particular case, “the bleedin’ obvious” is very often culturally biased. Something taken for granted and thus seen as bleedin’ obvious in Japan may not be so in in Australia for example.

]]> By: Dushan Hanuska http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2006/06/19/designing-the-bleedn-obvious/comment-page-1/#comment-1319 Dushan Hanuska Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:38:32 +0000 http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/?p=52#comment-1319 You are not alone! The world is full of things that are designed pretty badly. A quick search on Google Images reveals that there are people with sense of humor when it comes to lift buttons. Like this one: http://www.kleptography.com/images-stockpile/elevator/crw_7428.jpg Ok, so there are three columns, but where the hell is level 1, 2 and 3? I personally like color-coded levels: http://blog.zszaiss.com/wp-content/elevatorButtons.jpg Anyway, there is a great book out there. "The design on everyday things" written by D. A. Norman. It's a great read and highly recommended not only for people in IT. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465067107/sr=8-1/qid=1150724167/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-0436100-4361544?%5Fencoding=UTF8 You are not alone! The world is full of things that are designed pretty badly. A quick search on Google Images reveals that there are people with sense of humor when it comes to lift buttons.

Like this one: http://www.kleptography.com/images-stockpile/elevator/crw_7428.jpg Ok, so there are three columns, but where the hell is level 1, 2 and 3?

I personally like color-coded levels: http://blog.zszaiss.com/wp-content/elevatorButtons.jpg

Anyway, there is a great book out there. “The design on everyday things” written by D. A. Norman. It’s a great read and highly recommended not only for people in IT. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465067107/sr=8-1/qid=1150724167/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-0436100-4361544?%5Fencoding=UTF8

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