signal-to-noise ratio Archives - Trymata https://www1.trymata.com/blog/tag/signal-to-noise-ratio/ Sun, 17 Dec 2023 15:16:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 https://trymata.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cropped-Trymata-blog-logo-1000x1000-px-32x32.png signal-to-noise ratio Archives - Trymata https://www1.trymata.com/blog/tag/signal-to-noise-ratio/ 32 32 226506926 How bad design caused Hawaii’s false missile scare https://trymata.com/blog/2018/01/18/how-bad-ux-design-caused-hawaiis-false-missile-scare/ https://trymata.com/blog/2018/01/18/how-bad-ux-design-caused-hawaiis-false-missile-scare/#respond Thu, 18 Jan 2018 17:39:51 +0000 https://www.trymyui.com/blog/?p=4126 How did bad design cause Hawaii's missile scare of the past weekend? A picture of the state's emergency alerts interface gives a clue as to how such a grave mistake could occur.

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]]> https://trymata.com/blog/2018/01/18/how-bad-ux-design-caused-hawaiis-false-missile-scare/feed/ 0 4126 Is your design drowning out your message? https://trymata.com/blog/2015/05/27/is-your-design-drowning-out-your-message/ https://trymata.com/blog/2015/05/27/is-your-design-drowning-out-your-message/#comments Wed, 27 May 2015 16:04:36 +0000 http://blog.trymyui.com/?p=832 In engineering, the signal-to-noise ratio refers to the relative strength of an electrical signal compared to the strength of the background noise. Too much noise, and the signal can become difficult or impossible to decipher. Signal-to-noise ratio is an important consideration in design, too.

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