How not to design a critical UI

[Uncle Michael]

According to a story in the Washington Post, the cause of the missile alert false alarm in Hawaii came down to a poorly designed UI and the failure to exercise even basic process design review and control. I know there are many software experts on the board. Is this lack of design oversight common?

Excerpts from the article:
I am dumbfounded.

[BlairG]

+1 on dumbfounded

I've designed a lot of UI screens, menus and such. They require testing, but in this case reviewed by a team of critics.

This sound's like a lazy unsupervised programmer.