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Claims that emergency interfaces actively cause harmful mistakes, with concrete failures: a Hawaii false ballistic missile alert sent statewide because the alert UI is cluttered and ambiguous; ugly vendor screenshots and logs are shown and critiqued; subway cars use MTA emergency brake signage that lacks reasons, language alternatives, and affordances; screenshots, contrast measurements, and interaction flows are used as tools; several systems are built and shown to fail at real-world safety tasks.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:13Outline
3. 0:35legibility
4. 1:02readability
5. 1:50your tap
6. 2:01Hawaii nuclear alert
7. 2:32CDW button
8. 2:47Screenshot
9. 3:51Intent
10. 4:04Interface
11. 5:47Color Scheme
12. 5:57Visual Hierarchy
13. 6:23Consistency
14. 7:04Language Symbols
15. 7:37User Feedback
16. 7:54Material Design
17. 8:36Emergency Brake
18. 11:12Bad Design is Everywhere

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