"Dude, you hit the minivan"
Dec. 5th, 2006 06:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drwexOK, all of you who want to know what I do for a living? I try to stop people from making systems like this:
http://www.fquick.com/videos/viewvideo.php?id=520&file=520&autoStart=true
(Background: the 2007 Lexus comes with a "self-parking" "feature". The commercials show it parking itself between stacks of champagne flutes. This video shows what I would call a "user test" - which is to say actual real people using the system. It's quite clear to me that Lexus had nobody with my skill set involved in this vehicle's feature development.)
http://www.fquick.com/videos/viewvideo.php?id=520&file=520&autoStart=true
(Background: the 2007 Lexus comes with a "self-parking" "feature". The commercials show it parking itself between stacks of champagne flutes. This video shows what I would call a "user test" - which is to say actual real people using the system. It's quite clear to me that Lexus had nobody with my skill set involved in this vehicle's feature development.)
no subject
Date: 2006-12-06 12:10 am (UTC)