Re:Oroville Dam: Feds and state officials ignored warnings 1...
by ZeroGravitas on Monday February 13, 2017 @06:13AM
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"More worryingly, six were caused by staff members "pressing the wrong buttons."
I'm sure in one of the classic UI books (maybe Psychology of Everyday Things by Norman) there's a photo from a nuclear power plant, where there's two giant levers right next to each other, and the plant workers have attached a handle from a beer pump to one of them to distinguish it from the other, because as built they were identical and they kept pulling the wrong one.
edit: found a page referencing it, but the actual image has gone:
I'm sure in one of the classic UI books (maybe Psychology of Everyday Things by Norman) there's a photo from a nuclear power plant, where there's two giant levers right next to each other, and the plant workers have attached a handle from a beer pump to one of them to distinguish it from the other, because as built they were identical and they kept pulling the wrong one.
edit: found a page referencing it, but the actual image has gone:
http://bactra.org/reviews/everyday-things/nukewiser.html
You can see it here:
https://issuu.com/design.nerve/docs/the_design_of_everyday_t...
Page 95 as the book is numbered, but page 111 in the web interface control.