Exploration Through Example

Example-driven development, Agile testing, context-driven testing, Agile programming, Ruby, and other things of interest to Brian Marick

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Tue, 12 Apr 2005

Usability errors in medical interfaces

Jakob Nielsen points to an interesting study on life-threatening errors induced by poor user interfaces. I can well believe it. Unless things have changed in the past ten years, my wife (the veterinarian) has to deal with drugs whose standard doses are given in one of three units of measure. And yes, she's stopped students from giving animals huge overdoses due to conversion errors.

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