Totally thought this was someone holding their cock out from the thumbnail
I am glad I wasn’t the only one that thought being glad for being the only that thought that was a penis was not really something to be glad about.
Two perspectives:
The Designer: Make something idiot proof and the universe will create a bigger idiot.
Or
The User: Just because it makes sense to you does not mean it will to anyone else.
And it say “Hold your finger” not “Place your finger on the screen.”
I know this is a joke but I have seen designers make these sort of mistakes.
Mine has one. It’s part of the touchscreen. You put your finger/ thumb on that part of the screen whenever it asks for your fingerprint.
I wonder if there is a job where you test user interfaces by deliberately misunderstanding instructions? I feel I’d be good at it.
I had a lecture on that at university.
A group of students were given a car manual and told to follow the operating instructions in a completely literal manner.
He gave several examples that were pretty funny. The only incident I remember was the instruction to “Remove Handbrake” as part of the staring the car and moving off.
Remove Handbrake…The student pulled out a screw driver and started disassembling the handbrake and removing it from the car.
That’s genuinely a great way to evaluate a manual. People who read a manual likely read it because they don’t know much about the matter.
And if they don’t know much about the matter, they will not interprete or guess anything, but do exactly what’s written in that manual.
I always remember this saying when designing UI, “Good design is like a joke, it’s only bad if you have to explain it”
I’m terrible telling jokes
This reminds me of my windows laptop asking me for my finger print, while me using two external monitors with a docking station and the laptop shut.
I mean, the fingerprint sensor is likely internally connected via USB (most webcams are) so it could be external for all it knows. Or on the side of the laptop.
The dumb thing about Windows fingerprint login is how many clicks are required to switch to a password/PIN input. Why can’t I just start typing like on the Windows 8 start screen, dammit?!
Also, it stopped working when I uninstalled Edge?! (The dodgy webcam login too.)
It probably used some weird webview shit they routed through Edge, so when you uninstalled it the entire system broke.
I see two possible scenarios why Windows Hello seems to require Edge:
- It is indeed dependent on MS Edge WebView, which is a dumb dependency to have for a security feature, especially as historical precedent (the 1990s antitrust lawsuit) and recent EU rulings suggest that Edge should be optional
- System “tampering” (user taking back their rights) was detected, which disabled the feature.
I hope number 2 is the case. It suggests mistreatment of users, sure, but that could perhaps be patched out by a Powershell script.
On the other hand, if Windows Hello really needs a proprietary HTML renderer, this is a potential weak point and shows disregard of security in attempts to intertwine Microsoft products.
The text is just completely incorrect in this case. “Hold your finger” doesn’t in any way instruct the user to use the fingerprint scanner so the developer shouldn’t be surprised that its not understood.
