Week of December 11th, 2006

The Fine Art of Delusion, Act II

Failure of the Week. That's the reason why design is important. That's why iPods are successful. From Joel on Software, an excellent post on the craptacular user interface design of Vista when it comes to a simple task - shutting down the thing. I'm sure there's a whole team of UI designers, programmers, and testers who worked very hard on the OFF button in Windows Vista, but seriously, is this the best you could come up with?

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