I find in Google’s search engine significant irony. Let me explain. Have you considered how they can possibly index so much of the web so often and make it available coherently to the entire world and deliver individual results quickly and consistently? The Google engineering team deserves our immense respect for such an accomplishment. It […]
Usability Hall of Shame: OpenID and Web 2.0 Expo
Recently Dion and I gave a talk at O’Reilly’s well-produced Web 2.0 Expo conference. We messed up. Let me explain. Last fall, on a lark, we wrote a quick program that would buzz at random intervals. We finished it right before walking on-stage to give a keynote at The Ajax Experience and ran it with […]
Usability Hall of Shame: Whiteboard
Seen in a trendy Bay Area office space:
Usability Hall of Shame: Comcast
I think we all have experience with this little gem: the handy JavaScript-based field focus advancer which when poorly coded merrily forces you on to the subsequent field, even when you actually do want to go back and make changes. Observe in this video, embedded below for those whose feed readers don’t omit it: But […]
Usability Hall of Shame: Excel
Since May of this year, I’ve been trying to snap screenshots and videos of those special moments when my software (or hardware) interactions have been… less than stellar. Would you believe Microsoft bits have accounted for more than a few of these? Sure, but you have to go way back in time to find them. […]
Ben Galbraith 