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December 11, 2004
usability error: Enlarge means uncrop at NYT
Enlarge means uncrop at the New York Times.
If you see a picture, and see beside it a button labeled
Enlarge, you might expect that selecting that button would
cause to be displayed a larger version of the same picture.
Zoom in. Go bigger. More detail.
But not at NYT. At NYT, enlarge may in fact give you a
smaller picture.
Below, Bernard Kerik's head is smaller in the enlarged version of the
photo of him standing outside his house in Franklin Lakes, NJ.
Below is another example:
Submitted to the Interface Hall of Shame.
Posted by omor at December 11, 2004 05:26 AM
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