Topic: Unforgivable Sins of UI Design (Read 22806 times)

Saturn · « **Reply #20 on:** February 13, 2009, 03:55:30 PM »

Quote from: Romosome on February 13, 2009, 01:18:14 PM

I liked the Captcha idea where it would show a bunch of animal pictures and you'd have to click on the kitten, or the pig, or whichever because a machine can't tell the images apart.

Rapidshare did that for a while, but they did it WRONG because the cat and the dog looked identical except for the head, which would more often than not get obscured by the stupid backround noise.

Romosome · « **Reply #21 on:** February 14, 2009, 08:59:51 PM »

Oh, I remember that, the clipart pics of vague animal silhouettes.

No, I meant like actual photographs of real, adorable fluffy kittens.

Brentai · « **Reply #22 on:** March 09, 2009, 09:50:20 AM »

Google Code doesn't work with Google Chrome.

...products that aren't compatible with your own products are usually the exclusive realm of Microsoft. Not good.

Detonator · « **Reply #23 on:** March 09, 2009, 03:23:39 PM »

My cell phone alarm sets itself an hour later for daylight savings time.

For example, if it's set for 8AM daily on Saturday, it'll be set for 9AM daily on Sunday without me doing anything.

Why the FUCK would anyone ever want that to happen? So they can feel like they're waking up at the same time? Because everyone's job starts an hour later when daylight savings starts, right? Why would it be hard to have the alarm settings NOT CHANGE?

Note: It will do the same thing when changing time zones. If I asked Samsung about it, they would probably claim it's a feature.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #24 on:** April 29, 2009, 08:00:19 AM »

At school today in my Microcomputer Applications class (see: Microsoft Office Training), we had one hour to finish doing the second exam of the semester. After spending 10 minutes waiting for the thing to load in the first place, I then spent my remaining 50 only getting halfway through the exam. That was with me working steadily the entire time. The instructor told the entire class that if we didn't finish we could resume in the computer lab. So I closed down the exam application and went to the computer lab, only to find out we had to start from the very beginning all over again. And I had only 1 hour in the computer lab before my next class.

That kind of crap is bullshit. I was not given enough time to complete the exam as it clearly takes more than 1 hour to finish it. I had only gotten halfway through by the time I left, and all that work I did in class was for nothing.

TA · « **Reply #25 on:** April 29, 2009, 08:55:37 AM »

Were you maybe expected to save your work and bring it with you? Network drive or disk or something?

Royal☭ · « **Reply #26 on:** April 29, 2009, 09:51:40 AM »

Nope. Prof told the entire class (this wasn't isolated to just me) to just submit what we had - the test was taken over the network, we didn't download or save any file - and head to the computer lab. That's where we all discovered that our work was for nothing.

Kazz · « **Reply #27 on:** April 29, 2009, 09:54:47 AM »

And now you're prepared for the Microsoft-powered workplace!

Catloaf · « **Reply #28 on:** April 29, 2009, 10:11:25 AM »

Let me guess, check all that apply:

The network wouldn't let you take the test outside of the specified times
The lab closed shortly after your next class
You can't access the test from any non-network computer
By accessing the test once in the lab, it thinks you've started it and started the clock then meaning you couldn't take it later

Aren't lazy teachers who actually use horrible school network systems wonderful?

TA · « **Reply #29 on:** April 29, 2009, 10:13:16 AM »

Oh, well shit, then. If it's classwide, go bitch at the dean.

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #30 on:** April 29, 2009, 10:13:49 AM »

Speaking as a guy who writes software that students have to use, the criteria set by non-technical persons are usually the reason why such software is terribad.

Catloaf · « **Reply #31 on:** April 29, 2009, 10:18:19 AM »

So it's them using it wrong? Or insisting you make it that way?

Brentai · « **Reply #32 on:** April 29, 2009, 10:36:17 AM »

Chances are pretty good that the instructor doesn't like the system either and wouldn't use it given the choice. These sorts of decisions are always handed down by some person who's been hired to "modernize" the institution but who is at best half-computer literate him or herself.

Brentai · « **Reply #33 on:** May 13, 2009, 01:27:45 PM »

Adobe-san! Adobe-san! Are you every going to release a version of Reader that doesn't crash all the time?

Adobe-san?

(Adobe-san is unresponsive. Would you like to close him?)

Nyoro~n...

Kayma · « **Reply #34 on:** May 13, 2009, 01:36:53 PM »

Please update Adobe Reader!

But I don-

Please update Adobe Reader!

I just did this yest-

Please update Adobe Reader!

But it only does ONE THI-

Please update Adobe Reader!

Nyoro~n...

Mongrel · « **Reply #35 on:** May 13, 2009, 03:35:20 PM »

I just switched to Foxit because I was sick of Acrobat's bullshit as described above. It doesn't play well with Firefox though.

Thad · « **Reply #36 on:** May 26, 2009, 07:47:00 PM »

Computer design stupidities:

Symantec Endpoint Protection's LiveUpdate feature steals focus from other windows.

Let me just repeat that.

It is an UPDATER...that STEALS FOCUS FROM OTHER WINDOWS. So if you click on LiveUpdate, you can't fucking do anything until it's done or you'll find yourself suddenly typing in a goddamn Symantec window.

Kayma · « **Reply #37 on:** May 26, 2009, 07:48:38 PM »

Symantec Endpoint Protection. Jesus. That program is like napalm.

What I mean is, if the installation fucks up even slightly, you can't scrub it off your system. EVER. It just burns. FOREVER.

Brentai · « **Reply #38 on:** May 26, 2009, 07:51:01 PM »

I'm still kicking pieces of it off my mother's computer.

JDigital · « **Reply #39 on:** May 26, 2009, 08:41:45 PM »

I used to use WS_FTP, but it grabbed focus every time it uploaded a file. If it grabbed while you were typing, hitting spacebar would cancel that file upload.

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