Minima typographica
Oh man.
What were they thinking when they had this designed?
Usability in the real world
Having being trained as a designer in the late Eighties - early Nineties, that is when designing had more to do with wood, metal and plastic than screen estate, I still consider hardware design a somewhat important and fairly captivating part of my job, even after some straight sixteen years struggling over the immaterial whereabouts of the digital trade.
So, being all wrapped up in usability and accessibility issues as I am recently, when I came across this thingie, this automated kiosk for payment of medical tests (a ticket, in Italian. Well, sort of.) located in a neighborhood public medical center (Italians only: a CUP) mostly used by mothers with children and elderly, retired folks, I was offended, amazed and vastly impressed all at the same time.
