Party City Usability Medium Post

[wispfox]

I finally got around to finishing and tidying my post I started while still at Party City relating to the usability of the various devices that we used there.

For the curious: https://suzannehillman.medium.com/party-city-registers-design-problems-9d932856ecd0

Comments

[squirrelitude]

It's amazing how much poorly designed stuff there is out there, where a moderate investment of design would save so much time and pain for so many.

You might know all this already, but it's funny . . .

[chamaenerion]

While trying to get it to work with Unidesk, I learned that technology at registers is often described as "point of sale". So, a receipt printer would be a "point of sale printer" in industry jargon.

People who have to work with these things refer to them as "POS printers" (or whatever device it is you are annoyed at).

[someonefromthewater]

I thought that poor usability was by design for retail workers. :(

[jasra]

What a terrible mess! :(