Archives For Cultural cliche

The Phantom Menace, or the Crossing that Never Was…

10/08/2011

How the marking of a traffic speed hump provides a classic example of a false affordance and an unintentional hazard.

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The right attitude

27/05/2011

How the design of the Apollo Command Module Attitude Reference Indicator illustrates the importance of cultural cliches or precedents in coordinating human and software behaviour.

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