Usability choices in web design do have a real life impact, indeed. One example is the recent Primavera Sound festival, a music festival held in Barcelona, Spain, that saw performances by Sonic Youth, Blonde Redhead, Modest Mouse, and Beirut among others in this year edition.

How green is your program?

The fact is the designers had no better idea than provide a .pdf program to download all white on black, that is you print a letter/A4 format program all black with band listed in white. Could you be more stupid than this? Quite difficult. It was quite disgusting to see how near everybody (20k people daily attended the festival on a 3 days program) had printed the program, the fault isn't obviously the people printing a .pdf, the problem is some silly designer (in the the sense is sooooo cool at doing graphic design) has no idea of what design means.

To be a designer means way more than using Illustrator or Photoshop, you know? Shame on Primavera Sound festival, they contributed to waste this planet with their illogical choice, shame on the silly designer (be a designer next time dude, not just the Photoshop operator).