http://www.UserKind.com/blog/gibberish-application-messages/ Thoughts and insights on information architecture, website design, human factors, and whatever else. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:12:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.UserKind.com/blog/gibberish-application-messages/#comment-1162 Katharine Osborne Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:37:18 +0000 http://www.UserKind.com/blog/gibberish-application-messages/#comment-1162 Well, the keychain thing throws me - guess it is a mac specific thing (and I am still a newb on the mac). But yeah - it is asking you a yes/no question and giving you nonsensical choices. Maybe this is just my devious mind, but you could have fun building an interface that is completely nonsensical like that (very Monty Python), and forcing people to try using it (while watching them behind a two-way mirror). Might want to have some fragile objects in the room as well to allow them to vent their frustration :-) Well, the keychain thing throws me - guess it is a mac specific thing (and I am still a newb on the mac). But yeah - it is asking you a yes/no question and giving you nonsensical choices. Maybe this is just my devious mind, but you could have fun building an interface that is completely nonsensical like that (very Monty Python), and forcing people to try using it (while watching them behind a two-way mirror). Might want to have some fragile objects in the room as well to allow them to vent their frustration

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