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Fail Whale: BBC Meets with Twitter Designer Yiying Lu

Posted by on 29 October 2009
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Users of Twitter have all seen it--the dreaded "fail whale" that signals that Twitter is over its capacity. The icon has become famous in its own right, so the BBC set out to meet with the designer of this pop culture icon, Yiying Lu. Click below to listen to the audio recording of their conversation.

If given the opportunity, how would you design an over capacity icon?

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