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“ The GUI… oh god, the GUI… It had one consistent feature across all windows — two (apparently randomly selected) retina-burningly bright colors applied as a gradient background. The top of the window would be, perhaps, the color yellow that you can only see by staring directly at the sun, and it would fade gradually into the color red that you could only see if your eyes were literally on fire. The developer must have realized that these backgrounds would be pretty distracting, and that the welder’s mask required to view the application made it hard to see the buttons. So the buttons were assigned even brighter colors, and to make them stand out even further, they’d blink. Each screen in the app had two to seven flashing, often unlabeled buttons with no tooltips.
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