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  • Grand Prize User Interface FAIL

    Found in an apartment building lobby:

    Apartment lobby call box
    Apartment lobby call box

    The LCD gibberish comes from an interaction with the camera shutter. It scrolls a lengthy set of instructions, but the peeling labels demonstrate ain’t nobody got time for that.

    You were supposed to figure out how to use this thing with no instructions other than the scrolling display. In particular, the multi-multi-function keypad has no labels.

    I suspect most folks just haul out their phones and call the tenant.