Tragic designJonathan Shariat
Tragic design
by Jonathan Shariat · first published 2017
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If you're involved in designing critical systems (whatever critical may mean to you and your customers), I can recommend this book for a collection of case studies of where things went wrong: Tragic Design by Shariat and Saucier https://www.amazon.com/Tragic-Design-Impact-Bad-Product/dp/1... If you have an O'Reilly subscription, you can read it on their site.
on “Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to various creditors last August” ↗I really enjoyed Tragic Design. https://www.amazon.com/Tragic-Design-Impact-Bad-Product/dp/1...
on “Ask HN: Top 10 Timeless Software Books That ChangedLife as Software Engineer?” ↗Check out the recent O'Reilly book Tragic Design for more situations exactly like this. Poor UI design is remarkably common, even on controls that are essential for safe operations. http://www.tragicdesign.com
on “USS McCain collision ultimately caused by UI confusion” ↗…discussions on why specific systems have failed and in what ways, particularly where ethics and professional violations can be observed. Classically, the Therac 25 as an example of failure at many levels. See Tragic Design (a recently published O'Reilly book) for cases of bad design leading to tragic or potentially tragic results. A number of them could be turned into case studies in ethics. Examine why security breaches…
on “Lack of ethics education for computer programmers shocks expert” ↗Yep. A good book on this sort of thing is Tragic Design [0]. I was in a pilot "Software Safety" course last year and this book was published just after, but was an excellent companion text for the course. I've been meaning to follow up with them to see what…
on “Worst Computer Bugs in History: Therac-25 (2017)” ↗I can't speak to best practices, but I can to worst. Tragic Design [0] is a text I've recommend to others in the past. It's important to not just know what to do, but also what not to do and why. I haven't reread it since it came out of beta, I read it a few months before…
on “Ask HN: Any resources on the best physical UI?” ↗Hey everyone! After two long years of writing along side my co-author, we have finally released the book: Tragic Design. It's about the true impact of bad design and how to fix it. We felt there was a need to shed light on the discussion of Design Ethics by exploring the ways bad design can harm people and offering up…
on “Show HN: I wrote a book about Design Ethics called Tragic Design” ↗…right on the landing page of your site. As far as marketing goes, it feels sketchy because your book title isn't part of the direct quote. "This revolution is just beginning, and it's exciting to have [Tragic Design] to ground the growing movement of achieving truly inclusive design in the digital era." My guess is that John said something like "this book," or maybe you changed the book title and he called it something…
on “Show HN: I wrote a book about Design Ethics called Tragic Design” ↗Hey all, I actually cover this story in my book Tragic Design (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920038887.do) In my opinion, the software bug wasn't to blame but bad user interface design. When the error occurred that caused patients to get a direct blast of…
on “Medical Devices: The Therac-25 (1995)” ↗