User Experience Fail

whitespace is overrated

“submit order,” “cancel everything,” same difference. how hard can it be to click one and not the other when you’re not paying attention? the button and link are like, 4 whole pixels apart, or something. 4 pixels might as well be the freakin grand canyon if you have any sort of mouse precision at all. loser.

hope you liked “where’s waldo,” because this is a whole lot worse

ya, this actually happened. picking a date from a list of every possible date from now until the end of time is way easier than just typing one in or choosing a month / year separately.

why stop there? let’s do this with credit card numbers too. just have a drop-down that has every permutation of credit card numbers, and i’ll just find the one that’s on my card.

“why? because fuck you, that’s why.”
- the internet

hi, i’m eclipse! looks like you want to create a project!

first, let’s give it a name. something FUN, like “Java blows!”

next, you’ll pick a location. choose carefully, because moving it later will totally suck.

ok, all set? oh, wait, you know what? i bet you’ll want some javascript libraries. you can do that just by clicking here!

*click*

did i forget to mention clicking that cancels the entire create project process?

SURPRISE!

hi, i’m eclipse! looks like you want to create a project!

ya, put the ‘ok’ in the middle, and the ‘cancel’ button on the far right. that’s great. it’s like a game! where will the ok button be this time? i mean, everyone knows predictability is boring — this is how you add spice to user experience.

good one, eclipse. keep ‘em guessin’.

i AM at home you twits. im directly connected to your f’n cable box.

oh, and by the way? thanks for not allowing me to use my personal email when i registered for your crappy online payment system and forcing me to use that flacid @comcast email that i don’t/will never remember.

now i have to call your outsourced service center, spend 15 minutes on hold and waste everyone’s time/money.

in fact, i’m gonna call in tomorrow and put YOU on hold. ill be sure to play creed as the wait music.

!@#$

i don’t know how i managed to open adobe’s media player, but i did. at first i was annoyed (partially because it’s a video player and it somehow has a f’n splash screen that reads my preferences for 15 seconds), but, given that i’ve recently become interested in learning a bit of after effects, i decided to poke around. i clicked a video that was a feature tour of after effects (one of those promo-type videos) right off the home page, and, wait for it, the player failed to play the video because the format was “unsupported by the adobe media player.”

so, let me get this straight: adobe’s custom media player, designed to play adobe media, was unable to play a video promoted by adobe on their homepage, which featured CONTENT SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO SHOW HOW AWESOME ADOBE IS.

your stupid proprietary player can’t play the content you created to promote your products. staggering. you lose at everything.

gee, thanks for the options. it’s like sophie’s choice, but more depressing.

merlin:

Everything…and “More?”

This strikes me as a really weird UI decision.

why do i have to basically shut down my freaking computer to update flash? only the super tech-savvy would know how to shutdown the dashboard client.