[IxDA Discuss] Interaction design and tissues

[Alexander Baxevanis]

I guess a less dramatic example comes from the design of paper rolls
for receipt/barcode printers etc. In the last meter or so of the roll,
there is a red line printed on one side of the paper, to alert the
printer users that paper is running out and that they should probably
find a convenient moment to change it.

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Kevin Fox <kevin at fury.com> wrote:
> The tracer bullet example is a bit scary. One disadvantage of tracer bullets
>  is that they tend to give away your position (since enemies can see the
>  tracers as well as you can, and can visually trace them back to their
>  source). So now not only are you giving away your position, but you're doing
>  it just before you're going to have to reload!
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>  On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Maxim Soloviev <maxim at deast.info> wrote:
>
>  > Excellent example, thank you :)
>  >
>  > Another thing I recently read about is that Russian soldiers back in
>  > Afganistan started to put tracer bullet closer to the bottom of their
>  > magazines. In this case they know when magazine is going to be empty soon
>  > (there is visual difference in shooting with regular and tracer ammo).
>  >
>  > Most likely other soldiers do it as well, but that's example I know about.
>  > --
>  > Maxim
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