{"id":2104,"date":"2007-07-15T21:54:26","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T04:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2007-07-15T21:54:26","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T04:54:26","slug":"usability-problems-in-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2104","title":{"rendered":"Usability &#8220;PROBLEMS&#8221; in movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/alertbox\/film-ui-bloopers.html\">Nielsen highlights the 10 usability bloopers in film.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am surprised I didn&#8217;t find it earlier.  As a human computer interaction practitioner, I now am bothered by the glaring mistakes in film.  <\/p>\n<p>One thing that had always surprised me was how people remembered phone numbers so quickly.  Tell Jack Bauer a 7 digit phone number once, and he&#8217;ll get it right away.  He&#8217;ll be dialing that number an hour later, two hours later and even the whole day later.  Without any rehearsal.  While if someone told me a number, I&#8217;ll have to ask them to repeat it&#8230;not once, not twice, but thrice&#8230;or even more.  If I didn&#8217;t have paper or some other recording material.  Then I&#8217;ll forget it not in 10 minutes or 5 minutes, but 10 seconds after being told.<\/p>\n<p>Nielsen says that movies encourage people to think that they should be like the characters onscreen\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto perfectly get the interface the first time&#8230;and everything should work perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s all entertainment.  Right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nielsen highlights the 10 usability bloopers in film. I am surprised I didn&#8217;t find it earlier. As a human computer interaction practitioner, I now am bothered by the glaring mistakes in film. One thing that had always surprised me was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2104\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}