Sunday, September 29, 2013

Prometheus: Lesson in user experience

Hopefully, by now, everybody has seen Prometheus. I do think it was a good movie.

The one technical thing that stood out for me is how the access keypads were designed and how they were used in "reality". If you've noticed, these were located on every door of the ship. Each keypad was well designed to prevent breach(es) and with a futuristic setting, each one could probably have more functions available to empower users than any given website's security measures in existence as of today and probably a "security management module" to program all at once.

But how were the keypads used in reality?
Just like the picture of a no-brainer garage door opener shown in the picture on the right. This unit is placed in almost all garage doors and it is fairly simple to use it. In short, the two main behaviors expected from slapping that button are:
"Open the damn door" -or- "Close the damn door".
Pretty basic right?



In terms of UX, it's the first two behaviors of the system as "must haves".

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