Terms and conditions can be important and they do impose legal obligations so perhaps we should encourage reading them through good design. I bought some clip art once and since my wife is an IP lawyer was always encouraged to read the Terms and Conditions I discovered that I could use the clip art for up to one hundreds copies per presentation, but after that I owed the company some additional fees. If you own a small company and use open source software, you can lose some of the rights to your own intellectual property if you don't read the fine print when you integrate an open source utility with your own code.
Perhaps we should encourage people to read the terms and conditions. Now I will wait to get skewered :-). Chauncey On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Andy Polaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's such an insane way of thinking about T&Cs though because it assumes > people actually read them. Nobody does. At least nobody that I know. > > I once told a legal team from a bank that calling the legal info "important > information" was terrible because it isn't important to anyone except other > lawyers. Certainly not someone using the website. They agreed to "legal > information" on the button instead, which of course meant nobody read it but > they were covered. > > Sigh. > > p.s. To answer your question, sort of, Apple's installers do something > similar. They show a screen of legal cack, then when you just hit continue > it pops up an "Accept" "Don't Accept" alert that you have to click on one of > to continue. > > > Best, > > Andy > > :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: > Andy Polaine > > Research | Writing | Strategy > Interaction Concept Design > Education Futures > > Twitter: apolaine > Skype: apolaine > > http://playpen.polaine.com > http://www.designersreviewofbooks.com > http://www.omnium.net.au > http://www.antirom.com > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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
