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Case Study in UI design: how NOT to display election results

Now I'm no expert in user interface design, but consider the following local election results for Guam:

KUAM-TV: http://www.kuam.com/decision2004/results/general.aspx
PDN (a newspaper): http://www.guampdn.com/news/stories/20041104/localnews/1528978.html

Which do you prefer and which do you find less confusing?  :)

Posted: Nov 04 2004, 10:48 AM by guam-aspdev | with 3 comment(s)
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Michael Sumerano said:

KUAM-TV definitely has a better, more readable interface. I was instantly turned off by the PDN site. You know it's bad when you actually get angry. :)
# November 4, 2004 8:29 AM

Bill Evjen said:

That's so funny .... they put no thought into that ... it looks like it was a copy and paste from Excel.
# November 4, 2004 5:46 PM

Jason Salas said:

Hey Bill,

Yeah, they did...except they forgot to include the headers, so one doesn't easily know that the unbalanced columns with inconsistent spacing represents vote tallies by individual districts. :(
# November 4, 2004 6:07 PM
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