Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Idiocracy Usability



So I took some screen shots of the Idiocracy movie dvd menu. Try to guess which one is the selected "play"? If you guessed the bottom one, you are...um..... wrong....If you guessed the top one, um.....You good! You real good!

Like I said in my last blog, the DVD menu confused me because the selection indicator was the yellow tint over the box. A lot of the boxes had yellow borders around them already, so it was hard to pinpoint the selection at first glance. Looking at it now, the "play movie" when it is red seems to standout more than if it has the yellow selection tint over it. Anyways, I just thought that this was a good example of bad usability. However, again, maybe they tried to do this to fit with the theme of the movie.

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