What gets me is the system was designed to behave in that manner.
I was unable to open a bank account in Sweden. I was curious to how
everything worked over there. The POS in transportation systems were like
american fisher price toys, 3 very distinct big colored buttons.

Thanks for the input.

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Jeroen Elstgeest <
[email protected]> wrote:

> @Angel: what you did wasn't intentional, so good interaction design should
> have 'warned' you in some way. From a Service Design point of view such
> "excessive-usage"-fees should be forbidden :-)
>
> Designing around unintentional misusage isn't the same as fighting
> intentional abuse. The first can be prevented with interaction and
> industrial design. The second is a lot tougher, but Interaction Design could
> help there too, mostly in protecting a potential victim. On banking sites
> (in the Netherlands) you have always have to input a random number when you
> want to send a payment. The random number makes it harder to misuse the
> system, how well it works depends on interaction, but unfortunately such
> security systems must be used.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Angel Marquez <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Would this account for abuse:
>> http://mypfblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/excess-activity-fee-at-wamu.html
>>
>> This was about a month ago and the web UI allowed me to deplete my account
>> of over 75.00 of fees in one sitting with absolutely no destructive
>> confirmation screen.
>>
>> The excessive fee was enforced right about when wamu was going under.
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>
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