Christopher, Another classic - and typical issue. So how do we get the message across to the people responsible???
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Christopher Monnier <monn0...@umn.edu>wrote: > Here's an example from Minneapolis where the two terminals at MSP > airport (as well as the signs directing freeway traffic to the > airport) are being relabeled (at tremendous cost) because the current > labels are uninformative. Currently the airport's two terminals are > labeled "Lindberg" and "Humphrey," but those names don't mean > anything to most travelers. So the terminals are being relabeled as > "Terminal 1" and "Terminal 2," respectively. Additionally, the > signs will indicate which airlines are associated with which > terminal. > > Some up-front usability testing would have revealed the hubris of > using cryptic terminal labels when it would have been cheap to make > changes and could have saved the airport and whoever's paying for > the freeway signs a lot of money. > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43897 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
