{"id":268,"date":"2009-10-16T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2011-03-17T08:24:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T14:24:49","slug":"fail-how-not-to-do-user-experience-design-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2009\/10\/16\/fail-how-not-to-do-user-experience-design-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Fail: How NOT to do user experience design (I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I&#8217;m getting really weary of dopey interface design decisions on the web. I&#8217;ve got 30 years in CS &#8211; I have a pretty good idea about what&#8217;s possible, what&#8217;s easy, and what&#8217;s hard. DO HCI people not pay attention? Here&#8217;s an example (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/\">Scoop<\/a>). Click on the &#8220;click to enlarge&#8221; link (or the picture itself). <em><strong>Does that look bigger to you?<\/strong><\/em> What&#8217;s wrong with these people?<\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/WO0909\/S00246.htm\">Neanderthals Hunted, Raped And Ate Humans<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><span><strong>Friday, 18 September 2009, 12:58 pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Press Release: The Mandus<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/images\/0909\/94f799fbe3e93b88c562.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/images\/0909\/4258cb580ee72b681698.jpeg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Click to enlarge<\/small><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, the web isn&#8217;t the only place where people don&#8217;t bother to think about user experience design. It happens ALL the time, everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this space for more&#8230;..<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-268'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(268);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(268);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(268);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I&#8217;m getting really weary of dopey interface design decisions on the web. I&#8217;ve got 30 years in CS &#8211; I have a pretty good idea about what&#8217;s possible, what&#8217;s easy, and what&#8217;s hard. DO &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2009\/10\/16\/fail-how-not-to-do-user-experience-design-i\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[49,163],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fail","tag-user-experience"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-4k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7152,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/11\/25\/wrong-the-animal-you-spot-first-says-a-lot-about-your-personality\/","url_meta":{"origin":268,"position":0},"title":"WRONG: The Animal You Spot First Says a\u00a0Lot About Your Personality","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"November 25, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"No, it doesn't. 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