An impressively awful dialog design from Dell. Bad on so many levels.
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February 8th, 2008 by Harry Brignull • 1 commentOne comment so far | Leave a comment
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This reminds me a bit of the phone company message when you misdial a long distance number: “You must first dial a 1 when making this call…”. Hmmm… if you know I did something wrong, and you know exactly what that wrong thing was, why not just do it for me?