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March 29, 2004 12:12 AM
Broken: Detroit airport keycard instructions
Ryan writes:
I took this photo at Detroit Metro Airport. Odds are pretty good that a non-English speaking person or two are going to be in direct contact with this usability disaster.[Even this native English speaker has trouble understanding it. -mh]
I've started at the photo for ten minutes and I still can't figure it out. So this is one of those things that gives you a ticket at a parking lot? And the machine is broken so there is some guy who will manually had you the ticket if you pull up to some other location? Is that what is going on?
Like many other parking lots, the purpose here is that the device shown is for use by keycard holders (such as those who have monthly permits). People who need admission on a daily (or per-use) basis, need to pull up to get a ticket out of a separate machine. The confusion is that a per-use driver might think he should swipe his credit card in the card reader.
i find this amusing because it says "Insert Card Completely", and then at the bottom of the slot it says "Remove Sweetly"
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Wouldn't it have been just as effective to take a photo from the airplane window, of the whole city of Detroit?
That's a pretty broken place.
Posted by: Phil at March 31, 2004 04:18 PM