These screen captures are in honor of one of my favorite design books of all time — GUI Bloopers 2.0: Common User Interface Design Don’ts and Dos.

While signing up with Apple to distribute content through iTunes, I found myself facing a tough decision. (I thought all those other places were in the world?)

Next one needs no caption. Hehe.

Speaking of "Out Of Office", this is the dialog I received while closing down Entourage for Mac:

Are you as confused as me?

Based on the question, OK = "Turn it Off", Cancel = "Leave it On".  Right?

BUT…Cancel is what you click when you don’t want to confirm something (ie. "Are you sure you want to delete this?"  OK = Yes,  Cancel = No)

Dear Redmond, might I suggest a simple "Yes", "No" choice?

I read GUI Bloopers by Jeff Johnson in 2001. Best design book I ever read. Learning by mistakes is like reading Proverbs. They stick. That’s good.

Bonus: This reminds me of great article by Jakob Neilson called OK-Cancel or Cancel-OK? (Short answer: Quit spending hours debating this menial question, follow the standard of the platform the majority of your users use, and focus your time on more important problems.)