> A moron in a hurry is a phrase that has been used in legal cases, especially in the UK, involving trademark infringement and passing off. Where one party alleges that another (the defendant) has infringed their intellectual property rights by offering for sale a product that is confusably similar to their own, the court has to decide whether a reasonable person would be misled by the defendant's trademark or the get-up of their product. It has been held that "if only a moron in a hurry would be misled" the case is not made out.
In this context, yes, some UIs have to be usable by a moron in a hurry. Fire alarm? Gotta make it easy to use even if you get the occasional dipshit who pulls it for fun, because the alternative is tragic. That's why doors in public buildings have crash bars, the bars that go across the door that open it when someone crashes into them, because you have to assume eventually there will be a crowd of idiots in a hurry trying desperately to escape, and the crowd crush must open the door because otherwise it will kill people.
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> A moron in a hurry is a phrase that has been used in legal cases, especially in the UK, involving trademark infringement and passing off. Where one party alleges that another (the defendant) has infringed their intellectual property rights by offering for sale a product that is confusably similar to their own, the court has to decide whether a reasonable person would be misled by the defendant's trademark or the get-up of their product. It has been held that "if only a moron in a hurry would be misled" the case is not made out.
In this context, yes, some UIs have to be usable by a moron in a hurry. Fire alarm? Gotta make it easy to use even if you get the occasional dipshit who pulls it for fun, because the alternative is tragic. That's why doors in public buildings have crash bars, the bars that go across the door that open it when someone crashes into them, because you have to assume eventually there will be a crowd of idiots in a hurry trying desperately to escape, and the crowd crush must open the door because otherwise it will kill people.