Posted on June 26, 2008 by dtramontana
I have no idea if this is real, but it’s pretty funny either way.
“Let me give you my experience from yesterday.
I decided to download (Moviemaker) and buy the Digital Plus pack … so I went to Microsoft.com. They have a download place so I went there.
The first 5 times I used the site it timed [...]
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Posted on December 28, 2007 by dtramontana
CIO magazine has a good article on common usability blunders. The author, Esther Schindler, chalks all three “sins” up to lazy developers. The three “sins”, as described in the article Three Unforgivable Usability Sins, are:
Making the User Do Something the Computer’s Better At
e.g., Text box entrys that want phone number, but don’t allow parenthesis.
Losing Context
e.g., [...]
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Posted on November 16, 2007 by dtramontana
Most beginner programming books use ATM machines as a tool to explain the concepts behind transactions. I’m also going to use the ATM machine, but this time as a way to illustrate good usability.
Communicating with the user is always important to maintaining a good user experience. But it becomes even more important when there is [...]
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