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Bad Button Design: The Verge's Science Team Learns About It the Hard Way
Speaking of ediditors, "whomever" should be "whoever" in both places....
Also, one of the reasons Norman liked the name "Psychology Of Everyday Things" was the acronym, POET. Elegant design does include both psychology and poetry.
Regarding the traffic signal feedback, China has addressed that problem (at least, Shenzhen had it last time I was there). All the traffic signals had a digital display with a timer that informed people the time remaining until the lights would change.
Oh boy, you definitely had some bad experiences with the engineers, you like to mention them a lot. Stereotypical designer will make a nice button that doesn't work, stereotypical engineer will make an ugly, poor button that works. I think that to be truly good at making stuff you should be both, the engineer and the designer.