The UX Doctor: Fixing Seattle's new parking meters

Guest Opinion: Professional user experience designers analyze Seattle's proposed new parking meters.
Guest Opinion: Professional user experience designers analyze Seattle's proposed new parking meters.

Stuck card, connection failure, redundant charges — nearly every Seattle driver has had a frustrating experience with a parking pay station. So when the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) announced their plan to replace 2,200 parking meters over the next two years, Tactile, the industrial design firm I work with downtown, took note.

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