UX Central Weekly #4

Thanks for checking out UX Central Weekly number 4.

I came across an interesting anecdote from Stephen Dubner in the “When To Rob a Bank…” book I’m still reading this week titled “How to Cheat the Mumbai Train System”:

Ganesh Kulkarni discovered that Mumbai’s commuter trains serve six million passengers daily but the system isn’t equipped to check everyone’s ticket. Ticket agents conduct random ticket checks instead. This has given rise to a form of cheating that is elegantly called “ticketless travel.” Although it’s probably not very common to get busted for traveling ticketlessly, there is a significant fine if you are. And so one clever traveler has devised an insurance policy for ticketless travelers. Here’s how it works. You pay 500 rupees (about $11) to join an organization of fellow ticketless travelers. Then, if you do get caught traveling without a ticket, you pay the fine to the authorities and then turn in your receipt to the ticketless-traveler organization – which refunds you 100% of the fine.