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I always use this story to illustrate just how dire the standard of lecturing is at my uni.

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Our HCI lecturer last term, describing how poor most UIs were, said that the car handbrake was a typical example of poor UI, because 'people pull them up more to stop on hills. If it will hold on the flat with 2 clicks, you only need to put 2 clicks on it, no matter how steep the hill'.

This was the guy who also said, later on, that the brake was the left hand pedal and the clutch the middle pedal.

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