Posts tagged with “shit”
Appbeacon UX
This is me attempting to log in to appbeacon.com
This is where I get taken to once I’ve actually managed to log in…
If I’m logging in to a site that is supposed to help me find good apps for the iPhone, I don’t want to read a blog post about server problems. I want to see a list of apps.
When I do eventually find a list of apps, I can’t cmd click on them to open them in new tabs, there’s obtrusive javascript that hijacks my click and loads the new page in the tab that I’m already on. So then I try to leave a comment and this is what I get….
There is just so much wrong with this I don’t know where to start. I’ve already logged in, you know my name and email address yet there’s name and email fields, a “log in to comment” button, a “log in to comment” link and a fucking “post using OpenID” link! I’m already fucking logged in.
11:18 AM | 0 Comments | Tags: appbeacon, ux, shitWhen interface design attacks
A friend pointed me in the direction of this blog entry as a demonstration that Microsoft’s UI designers are moving in the right direction. To a point I agree, it certainly looks nicer than Windows FP even if we ignore the worrying similarities to a deviantArt hax0r’s Mac skin for Windows. What’s actually bothering me here though is the usability. This interface uses what I call “secret tabs”, notice the titles of the un-selected tabs just floating in mid air with no indication as to what they actually are. You don’t know that’s a tab until you click on it, by which time it’s too late. It might turn out to be the “erase my harddrive” button, or a goatse hyperlink.
Considering all the freely available resource material on how to make an application GUI work for the user, this is well slack.