Giant UPCs make for easy supermarket checkout

Package design: giant vs. normal UPC

This just in: the bigger a target is, the easier it is to hit. Hats off to whoever designed this box for Trader Joe’s! I’m sure it speeds things up for both their cashiers and customers by providing a huge target for the price scanners. This is a perfect use of otherwise-wasted space.

I’m curious to see if they update the rest of

Posted at 12pm on 08/28/08 | no comments | Filed Under: Physical read on

mozilla.org’s human-proof CAPTCHAs

The CAPTCHAs (those pictures of distorted text that you sometimes have to enter to confirm that you’re human) used on the account registration for Firefox Add-Ons page are human-proof:

← wtf!

The letterforms are ambiguous, the font is a distressed/grunge face that leaves orphaned blobs that might be part of letters, might be

Posted at 2pm on 07/28/08 | 1 comment | Filed Under: Web read on

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Me in fifth gradeInterfeces is written by Nick Grossman, a user interface designer, software engineer, and systems architect. He lives in San Francisco, where he enjoys experimental photography, making ice cream, amateur theoretical physics (seriously—someone please explain this whole ½ spin particle thing to him), and bacon.

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