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by mytochar 4102 days ago
The comments are suggesting that this is niche. I don't think it's niche at all. On products I've worked on, I've frequently declared that all usability testing should be done when you're exhausted and grumpy. You don't tolerate

    * pointless process,
    * extraneous fields,
    * improperly labeled things,
    * poor ordering,
    * sloppy UX flow,
    * excessively accurate controls, 
    * super-tiny buttons, 
    * things when you're like that.
In a similar way, when you're drunk, you can't /do/ process like that.

I think it's a lovely idea and more systems should be designed with that in mind.

Drunk, I might be able to operate a computer as well as my grandmother; so, if it can support me drunk, it can support my grandmother.

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> * super-tiny buttons,

He includes a link to his website, which has a very tiny and fairly condense header bar but plenty of white space. Perhaps he should hire himself?

Plus it works with 6 colors.
Don't think that this idea is that useful. It seems like more a awareness to the crazy toughs on the users mind. The videos should be fun, but let's face it, we gotta design for our users, not for drunk users that would/"should" represent the worst users we could get
Its also not niche because a lot of people compute and buy shit impulsively when drunk. So I hear...