This is just an example...
Of how hard interface design really is. Do you really think the people that came up with the "design" of the McFlurry container took hedgehogs into consideration? End users, they can and will do anything.
I think this is why I don't like to do user interfaces myself :)
posted by Thomas Kyte at 1:36 PM
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so you are saying end users are hedgehogs??
:) no, of course end users are not hedgehogs, but hedgehogs were the end users here...
I saw this story yesterday (I think) and all I could think to myself was, "There are way too many people out there with way too much time on their hands".
Not only that, but it really isn't McD's problem. It's people who don't clean up after themselves. Very irritating...
Stand by for much wailing when baby hedgehogs get their heads stuck.
So what else can you catch with it?
Sounds like a new chapter in the survival handbooks. "Before going into the wild, go to McDonalds and order a McFlurry."
Dinsdale! Diiiiiinsdale! Dinsdale!
Things like this happen when underlings misunderstand what a CEO wants. In this case, I imagine someone at McD's thought they found a great way to put Sonic out of business.
I like the line "dying of starvation in untold numbers".
A beautifully crafted Daily Mail style line that sounds like "millions have died", when in reality it means "we don't know how many have died".
Yes "untold numbers" is sort of ambigous isn't it.
"some where between one and five billion" perhaps. (meaning literally between ONE individual and 5,000,000,000)
I always liked the 'marketing' term of "in as little as 4 to 8 weeks you too can see...."
If it is in as little as 4 weeks, of course it is in as little as 8 weeks too - what is up with the "to 8" part...
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