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Cow is about to fall on you: Accept or Deny?

November 7th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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Yes dialogs can be useful - especially when you're about to do something stupid and irreversible to your computer. In some applications and OSs, warning dialogs are overused and ineffective. You just can't warn people of every possible danger lurking out there... Consider the story of Charles Everson Jr, driving through Manson ...

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Don’t read this post!!!

July 12th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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The navigation at the popular site SearchEngineLand is very normal - a set of buttons to access the content categories. The last button is labelled "Don't Click Here". Human nature is as human nature does... in three weeks the page had 1,713 unique page views. If you're designing a product that has a potentially ...

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