March 11, 2010
Slate.com has a nice article on the difference between U.S. exit signs and the rest of the world, as well as a nice history of the evolution of the symbols. Here is an excerpt to get you interested: The text-based American exit sign has its origins in the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, a blaze in a downtown Manhattan garment factory [...]
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January 12, 2010
Darin Ellis sends along this radio story about a woman’s robotic heart that has a malfunction warning system that literally breaks the textbook HF rules of alarm design. I’ll let Darin explain the unfortunate issue: This woman, who is living thanks to a robotic heart, related a story of the “heart” malfunctioning. Apparently, although not prone to malfunction, there is [...]
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