Web Design tips: Anti-stay design to prevent errors from occurring

Article Description: we should put aside their own advanced user perspective, in the user may be "stunned" every moment of fine carving. Deep excavation of user behavior habits and mental models, real from the user's point of view to analyze the use of may appear problems, through the design of the system to try to avoid the occurrence of errors-the simple left to the user, the complex to leave themselves, so that a daze become impossible.

There are always some things in life that make us confused: What is the control I want when facing a row of lights or air-conditioning buttons? When you pull out a key in the lock, which is the right one? Pick up a U disk into the computer, in that direction is right? ...... A similar hesitation amply illustrates that you are stuck. Now it's time to save you from the "anti-stay" design.

Anti-stay definition

Anti-Stay (Japanese: ポカヨケ; English: fool-proofing) is a kind of behavioral restraint means to prevent the correction, using the restrictive method of avoiding the error, so that the operator does not need to pay attention, and does not need experience and professional knowledge to complete the correct operation accurately. In a broad sense, the prevention of staying is how to design a thing, and the chance to minimize the occurrence of the error. Avoid the occurrence of work errors, and then achieve the "first time to do the right" realm.

Anti-stay and design

The most common anti-stay design in the computer, in order to allow ordinary users to assemble the computer will not make mistakes, the relevant 0 components are mostly shape-compatible design. Life is also no lack of the application of the design, the following 2013 if award-winning works of the Smile Key (Smile key) through the anti-stay design to solve the key of the 4 major problems. Natural Radian, more fitting thumb and forefinger, with more comfortable; it is easier to discern the direction of the key-no longer need to remember which side is the right direction, the nature of the thumb and index finger that side, is correct; when the key is flat, because this radian, it is easier to be picked up; The key has an unequal number of raised small particles, To distinguish who is who, for example, 1 small particles are the office, 2 are their own door. This is especially handy when you can't see it at night, and try it again with a bunch of keys.

Anti-stay designs are often designed using sensory replacements. such as the following Cup cover, through the visual replacement of the sense of touch to prevent the stay. The temperature of the liquid in the cup can be displayed in different colors. Through the visual warning to remind people at this time of the drink is very hot mouth, to avoid a moment of confusion to pick up the drink.

The roadside indentation, as shown below, is just the opposite of a visual reminder to the vehicle driving to the curb: Your vehicle has deviated from the main carriageway. It is more effective than visual guidance to instruct the driver to adjust the direction as soon as possible through the vehicle's bump feeling in the driving process.

The important goal of anti-stay design is to avoid errors. Is it annoying to stay on the table with coffee? Then don't let this mistake happen: from designer Kim Keun Ae Creative, stain-proof coffee cup in the Cup's waist line opened a ring groove, so, along the edge of the cup of coffee stains, flow here will be horizontal development, will not continue to dirty table ~

In addition, the anti-stay will be designed at the appropriate time to remind users to help users complete the task. The creative balance vase from designer Risako Matsumoto(Songbenri yarn) also uses the idea of staying in: a graceful reminder to water the flowers. A wooden bracket with a vase on one side and a movable counterweight slider on the other, the whole structure is fastened to the wall by the hook to form a structure similar to the balance. When the water in the vase is reduced, the stent begins to tilt, the more water is reduced, the more inclined it is, and it is a great reminder that it should be added to the water.

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