I guess a less dramatic example comes from the design of paper rolls for receipt/barcode printers etc. In the last meter or so of the roll, there is a red line printed on one side of the paper, to alert the printer users that paper is running out and that they should probably find a convenient moment to change it.
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Kevin Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The tracer bullet example is a bit scary. One disadvantage of tracer bullets > is that they tend to give away your position (since enemies can see the > tracers as well as you can, and can visually trace them back to their > source). So now not only are you giving away your position, but you're doing > it just before you're going to have to reload! > > > > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Maxim Soloviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Excellent example, thank you :) > > > > Another thing I recently read about is that Russian soldiers back in > > Afganistan started to put tracer bullet closer to the bottom of their > > magazines. In this case they know when magazine is going to be empty soon > > (there is visual difference in shooting with regular and tracer ammo). > > > > Most likely other soldiers do it as well, but that's example I know about. > > -- > > Maxim > > ________________________________________________________________ > > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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 ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
