Something that often interests me is design, and especially non-verbal design intended to help us language-using monkeys figure out how to use, do, or build things. I'm not sure if it's quite right to call this UX (user experience), but I'm not sure what else to name it.
So, that out of the way, the image here is an interesting piece of instruction I received this week from HP, inside an envelope that also contained a laptop power cable.
I don't know how long I stared at it before finally figuring out what they were trying to tell me to do.
There has to be a better way to give people this instruction. Does it really cost that much to have simple instructions written up and translated? Does it cost more than this set of pictograms cost? I can't really say.
But this isn't the first time I've received baffling instructions from HP.
Back when I bought my laptop, it came packed in a bag with a series of pictures on it that, I'm pretty sure, meant "Autoerotic asphyxiation strictly not allowed".
Or maybe that was just my interpretation. Someone else has said they thought that it meant "No playing spaceman!"
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