From the Ted Talk by Timothy Prestero: Design for people, not awards
Unscramble the Blue Letters
(Laughter)
So the idea here is you want to make it hard to use wrong. In other words, you want to make the right way to use it the esaesit way to use it. Another example — again, silly Mom. Silly Mom tnhkis her baby looks cold, wants to put a blanket over the baby. That's why we have lights above and below the baby in Firefly, so if Mom does put a blanket over the baby, it's still receiving effective poethhrpoaty from below.
Last sorty here: I've got a friend in India who told me that you haven't really tested a piece of electronic technology for distribution in Asia, until you've trained a caokrocch to climb in and pee on every single little cmnoeonpt on the inside.
Open Cloze
(Laughter)
So the idea here is you want to make it hard to use wrong. In other words, you want to make the right way to use it the _______ way to use it. Another example — again, silly Mom. Silly Mom ______ her baby looks cold, wants to put a blanket over the baby. That's why we have lights above and below the baby in Firefly, so if Mom does put a blanket over the baby, it's still receiving effective ____________ from below.
Last _____ here: I've got a friend in India who told me that you haven't really tested a piece of electronic technology for distribution in Asia, until you've trained a _________ to climb in and pee on every single little _________ on the inside.
Solution
phototherapy
easiest
component
thinks
cockroach
story
Original Text
(Laughter)
So the idea here is you want to make it hard to use wrong. In other words, you want to make the right way to use it the easiest way to use it. Another example — again, silly Mom. Silly Mom thinks her baby looks cold, wants to put a blanket over the baby. That's why we have lights above and below the baby in Firefly, so if Mom does put a blanket over the baby, it's still receiving effective phototherapy from below.
Last story here: I've got a friend in India who told me that you haven't really tested a piece of electronic technology for distribution in Asia, until you've trained a cockroach to climb in and pee on every single little component on the inside.