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Assuming he wants to redesign it within the same basic constraints as the existing design, I would think that the message should be "ham biscuits sold out" rath
by karaterobot 5y ago
Assuming he wants to redesign it within the same basic constraints as the existing design, I would think that the message should be "ham biscuits sold out" rather than "ham biscuits available". That is, alert customers when you're sold out rather than before. The green light seems easy to miss, because green doesn't demand your attention as much as red does. Plus, the green sign is an example of one of my favorite anti-patterns, the "everything's okay!!!" alarm. Tell me when things go wrong, not when everything is working as I already expect it to.
- kcplate 5y agoA while back while on a business trip I stayed in hotel right across the street from a 24 hour Krispy Kreme donut shop. Every time their red neon “hot now” sign turned on it bathed my hotel room in a red glow. I ate a ton of hot glazed donuts that trip. Red works.
- busterroni 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicken_Roaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicken_Roaster
- joezydeco 5y agoYou have a large flashing sign in someone's face and instead of using that as a sales tool ("buy a ham biscuit!", aka "hot donuts now!"), you're going to use it to tell them bad news?
- derefr 5y agoIf ham biscuits are regularly selling out, you don’t need to generate any more demand. It’s not like they can magically horizontally scale their ham biscuit production within the confines of a set kitchen.
- zumu 5y agoSome locations might not carry the ham biscuit. In such a case, the ham biscuits 'available' serves as advertisement in a sense. This is an overloading of the function of course, but perhaps a useful one.