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I first thought this was a post about flat design, then went and read the whole toot. Man, who'd expect UI to be bad enough for life and death operations.

Someone should post more details about the actually confusing UI that lead to this event. Would be a good lesson to most of us.

It also appears that Lockheed won a contract for using this system in 2023 [1]. Can someone share if they actually fixed the UI issues with it recently?

1 - https://news.clearancejobs.com/2023/03/13/lockheed-martin-wi...



The details are in the posted thread.

Basically, heading and location came from one plane, identification from another plane, and altitude yet from another one for reasons.


Thank you. Did go through the whole thing. Talk about complicated systems, lack of documentation, work stress and then branding it a personnel failure. Totally unlike most systems today (not!)


I thought it was about Chrome's new sidebar by just reading the title.


I actually had to Google what that looked like. It's been a while.

Haha.




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