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What the UI Design of the Hawaii Missile Alert Actually Looks Like, and a Suggested Design Improvement
…and of course, a hilarious GIF parody
Hawaiian news organization Honolulu Civic Beat has Tweeted this photo of the UI design that led to Saturday's missile alert:
Needless to say the design is insanely bad. We've already covered how important the ramifications of a false alarm are; and whoever designed this couldn't use icons to distinguish these options? Or even boldface, italics, or color?
Former UX designer Luca Milan quickly whipped up a much better alternative:
— Luca Milan (@iamlucamilan) January 16, 2018 ">And some joker posted this hilarious one:
Thankfully, if you read through the comments of the original Honolulu Civic Beat Tweet, you'll see that most commenters agree that design, and not the poor bastard who clicked the wrong text line, is to blame for Saturday's error.
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Comments
Why would anyone want to dumb this down? It’s not a typewriter, so why limit the format to one?
Luca's update is of course a million times more logical, but we'd likely have to "dumb it down" to eliminate rich text styles, font sizes, and emoji ... in other words, how would we do it on a typewriter?
I feel some of these shouldn't even be on the same screen. All it takes is the mouse acting a little wonky to click the wrong one. Then is their not a "Sure you want to do this?" to "Enter in a code for this super duper important option that could declare war".